Taking care of number one

A pious holy man once said to Nasrudin, “I am so selfless that I only think of others,  never about myself.” Nasrudin countered, “I am so entirely objective that I am able to regard myself as if I were someone else, so I can care about me.”

I found my horn on YouTube

A single spotlight illuminates a lone man, naked but for his jockey shorts, clutching in front of his privates, bell facing towards him, a French horn.   “I found my horn” best-selling book, now play begins, the true story of a mid-life crisis in which Jasper Rees, the author played by Jonathan Guy Lewis, ponders what becomes [...]

The coat

An old friend stopped by to visit Nasrudin. “Ahmad, I haven’t seen you in ages, my friend!” exclaimed the delighted Nasrudin. “But I am just about to go out on my rounds.  Come with me so we can talk.” “But I am hardly dressed for the occasion and it is cold outside,” replied Ahmad.  “Lend [...]

Damned if you do..

As Nasrudin was travelling into town, leading his donkey on which his son was mounted,  a young man jeered them both.  “See the old man, letting the boy ride as he hobbles along beside.”  Nasrudin stopped, and exchanged places with the boy.  A little further along, an old women shouted at Nasrudin, shaking her fist, [...]