A vulture boards an airplane with a dead raccoon under each wing. The flight attendant says chidingly, "I'm sorry, sir, but only one carrion per passenger is allowed." ************ A group of chess enthusiasts in town for competition were standing in the lobby, chatting loudly and affably about their recent tournament victories. Before long the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?" one asked. "Because", the manager replied, "I can't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer." ************* A poor woman has twins out of wedlock and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt and is named Ahmal. The other goes to a family in Spain who name him Juan. Years later, after a long search, Juan identifies and locates his birth mother and mails her a picture of himself. Doting over the picture, she wistfully tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband responds, "They're twins, dear. If you've seen Juan, you've seen Ahmal." ************** Mahatma Gandhi, as we know, walked barefoot most of the time, which resulted in an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little and from a limited menu, which besides making him frail also caused him chronic bad breath. One might say Gandhi was a super-calloused fragile mystic vexed by halitosis.
