A little humour - September 2009
The hot air balloon - an old joke, revitalised.
A man in a hot air balloon (globo aerostatico) notices that he is losing height. He then notices a woman on the ground so lowers his balloon a little further and calls to her: “Excuse me! Can you help me? I promised to meet my friend and hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”
The woman answered: “You are in a hot air balloon which is at a height of ten metres, between 40 and 41 degrees north and between 59 and 60 degrees west.”
“You must work with computers,” said the man.
“I do indeed,” answered the woman. “How did you know?”
“Well,” the man replied, “All that you just said is technically right, but I have no idea what I’m supposed to do with the information and am still lost. It’s reasonable to say you’ve not really helped me at all. If anything, all you have done is made me even later.”
The woman replied: “Ah, you must be a politician.”
“Yes,” the man said in surprise. “But how could you know that?”
“Well,” she said, “You knew neither where you were, nor where you were going. Only hot air (la verborrea) has got you to where you are right now. You actually admitted you don’t have any idea how to sort out your situation, and you expect people below you to sort out the problem for you. And you are now in the same situation as when we just met, but now all of a sudden it’s my fault.”
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