* * These are some of the jokes appeared in the Magazine titled “In Cheerfulmood” in “Don Bosco Madonna” published from Mumbai. I really love them and hope you too.****
** ** *Efficient Breakfast* : - The efficiency expert concluded his lecture with a note of caution. “You don’t want to try these techniques at home”. **** “Why not?” asked some one from the back of the audience. [Backbenchers always have questions]. The expert said “I watched my wife’s routine at breakfast for years. She made lots of trips to the refrigerator, stove, table and cabinets, often carrying just a single item at a time.” Honey I suggested, Why don’t you try carrying several things at a time?” The voice from the back asked, “Did it save time?”**** The expert replied, “Actually, yes. It used to take her 20 minutes to get the breakfast ready. Now I do it in seven”**** ** ** *There is Teacher* : The children had all been photographed for school picture, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture saying “Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, ‘ There is Jennifer; she is a lawyer, or That is Michael, he is a doctor” **** A small voice at the back of the room rang out “And there is teacher, she is dead” **** ** ** *Keep your Seat* : A radical feminist is getting on a bus when, just in front of her, a man gets up from his seat. She thinks to herself, ”Here is another man trying to keep up the customs of a patriarchal society by offering a poor, defenseless woman his seat, and she pushes him back onto the seat. A few minutes later the man tries to get up again. She is insulted again and refuses to let him up. Finally the man says, “Look lady, you have got to let me get up. I am two minutes past my stop already.” **** ** ** Exam by Chance : A young student reports for final examination that consists of only true/false type of statements. The Student takes a seat in the hall, stares at the question paper for five minutes, removes a coin and starts tossing the coin and marking the answer sheet. Heads means true and tails means false.**** The young student is all done in 30 minutes while the rest of the hall is sweating it out. But, suddently during the last few minutes, the young student is seen desperately throwing the coin and sweating profusely. **** The moderator, alarmed, approaches the student and asks what is going on. ** ** “Well, I finished the exam in half an hour; but I thought I ought to recheck my answers” answered the student.**** ** ** *In Need of Prayer* : A young boy called the pastor of a local ‘corner’ church to ask the pastor to come by to pray for his mother who had been ill with flu. The pastor knew the family and was aware they had been attending another church down the road.**** So the pastor asked “Shouldn’t you be asking Brother Simon down the road to come by and pray with your mother?”**** The young boy replied “Yeah, but we didn’t want to take the chance that he might catch whatever this is that Mom has”****
