It's been a while...

[CW Spook]

...and I couldn't resist any longer.

A certain Mr. Chou, to save his life, fled from his native China during a revolution, leaving a son behind. Years later, he returned to search for his long lost son. He learned that a family named Gault (a common name there, like Smith) had spirited his son away for safety. Extensive searching and the questioning of several young men who might have been his son, but weren’t, brought Chou to conclude that, . . . “Many were Gault, but few were Chou’s son.”

 

[brucev]

Ah... low humor! Just the thing to raise an eye brow... and bring a smile. Cool.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Reminds me of the rather shaggy one about the son of Korean dictator Syngman Rhee. He came to the US, went to J-school, and got a job with Life magazine, who sent him into the jungles of Southeast Asia on assignment, where he promptly disappeared without a trace. The magazine hired an adventurer named Stanley, who had a rep for tracking missing persons in Third World venues.

After some years of search, Stanley finally located his quarry. Upon meeting the young man, he said, "Ah, barefoot boy with teak of Chan."

Wait, that's not it; that's a different missing person. What he said was, "Sweet Mister Rhee of Life, I have found you!"

 

[george minze]

You guys have way to much time on your hands....I'm getting old but I still picked up on it..........I'm still smiling!

 

[shouldazagged]

Sounds like one of the lesser-known adventures of al-Shibum, the great-grandson of the legendary Sinbad. Because of his lineage he was summoned by the Great Sultan of his country and offered fabulous riches plus the hand of a princess (and probably the rest of her as well) if he retrieved the Magical Golden Flounder of Wazu. After countless dangers and trials he found the mighty flatfish, but it was frozen solid and stuck to the pedestal on which it rested. As al-Shibum struggled to pry it loose before the guards arrived, a gigantic bird his great-grandfather would have recognized swooped down and crushed him against the frozen fish. And thus the great-grandson of Sinbad found himself between a roc and a hard plaice...

(Sorry, that's an original. I'll just go hide in a neighbor's garage now.)

 

[carpriver]

I love those kind of jokes.

 

[wbraswell]

I really knew better than to open this thread. These remind me of an old joke, that was way to long to post, and the punch line was "Tarzan Stripes Forever".

 

[george minze]

Sounds like one of the lesser-known adventures of al-Shibum, the great-grandson of the legendary Sinbad. Because of his lineage he was summoned by the Great Sultan of his country and offered fabulous riches plus the hand of a princess (and probably the rest of her as well) if he retrieved the Magical Golden Flounder of Wazu. After countless dangers and trials he found the mighty flatfish, but it was frozen solid and stuck to the pedestal on which it rested. As al-Shibum struggled to pry it loose before the guards arrived, a gigantic bird his great-grandfather would have recognized swooped down and crushed him against the frozen fish. And thus the great-grandson of Sinbad found himself between a roc and a hard plaice...

(Sorry, that's an original. I'll just go hide in a neighbor's garage now.)

How long will he let you stay?? The neighbor that is!!!!!