Today is World Laughter Day. What better day than this to hear the World’s Best Joke as certified by the LaughLab project at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom?
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A couple of hunters are out in the woods when one of them falls to the ground. He doesn’t seem to be breathing, his eyes are rolled back in his head.
The other guy whips out his cell phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps to the operator: “Hello, hello. My friend is dead! What can I do?”
The operator, in a calm soothing voice says: “Just take it easy. I can help. First, let’s make sure he’s dead.”
There is a silence, then a shot is heard. The guy’s voice comes back on the line.
He says: “OK, now what?”
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According to Dr Richard Wiseman, the psychologist behind the project, there are three reasons why this joke narrated by psychiatrist Dr Gurpal Gossal works. One, because we feel superior to the hunter. Two, we realise the incongruity of him misunderstanding the telephone operator. And three, it helps us to laugh about our concerns about our own mortality.
What’s the best joke you have heard? Let’s hear it.
How do porcupines make love with all their scary quills?
V-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-r-r-r-r-r-y carefully!!!
And also, on this day, the World Laughter Day, let us pledge that we in Mysore, will not form groups in parks to laugh as a ‘theraphy’.
And that we shall ensure that laughter is and should be a natural, instinctive and whole hearted response to something amusing and funny.
And not something deliberately induced. For heaven’s sake!
Otherwise, we shall end up looking like a bunch of mentally deficient, abnormal beings whose rightful place is where psychiatrists and such other mind menders ply their trade!
Quite the best joke I have ever heard is a mathematical sardarji joke, yes mathematical. It is difficult to explain in print, but let me try. When Giani Zail Singh is President, six Surds take a taxi to Rashtrapati Bhavan. The meter shows Rs 18. One of the Surds divides 18 by 6: six ones are six, six twos are 12, remainder is 6, then six ones are six, remainder 0. So, 18 divided by six is 21, he says and thus each surd pays Rs 21 and goes in to meet Zail Singh. Then one of the other Surds gets a doubt. How come we paid Rs 21 each when the fare was just Rs 18. So, he asks Zail Singh. No problem, lemme solve it for you, says the Gaini. “So there were six of you and you paid Rs 21 each? OK.” He writes down 21 six times and adds each line, and it comes to 18. You paid correctly, he says.
This is the toughest sardarji joke I could understand. When I read it for the first time, it bounced above my head. I tried to figure it out later. Made little more easier to understand!
When Surds calculate that share its like this,
6)18(21
-12
——
06
-06
——
00
when Zail singh resolves it , its like this.
2+1+2+1+2+1+2+1+2+1+2+1 = 18!!
:-) :-)
The best joke which I ever heard is about a Sardar … It is a one liner, that why I feel this is best..
“Sardar is playing Chess………..:-)))”
One more one liner Sardarji joke…
“Once upon a time there lived a wise Sardar…”
:))
The one sardar joke that is high up on my list is this one.
A sardar, walking down a street, slips on a banana peel and falls with a resounding thud.
Gathering himself, he resumes his walk.
Down the road, he sees another banana peel.
The sardar mutters to himself,’ Thu teri, phir girna padega’!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
According to me, following is the best joke on sardarji.
“A 80 year old sardaji visits a sexologist. Doctor gives him a small jar and asks sardarji to collect semen and bring it back to him for testing.
Next day sardarji returns to doctor and explains “first I tried with my left hand, then right hand….it didnt work…..then wife tried with teeth and without teeth…..it was not successful…..then my neighbor’s wife also tried with her both the hands……
Doctor exclaimed “did you ask your neighbor’s wife to do that????, how come?
Sardarji said ” she also tried…..but in vain”. We all failed to open the cap of this jar.