On this Friday of Spirit Week, we bring you one of Jim’s many jokes collected in his travels.
–by Jim Wang
Franz Wilhelm was a short and ugly painter. When someone laughed at him, he would be outraged. Once, he was sitting in a restaurant, and a beautiful woman came in the restaurant and sat next to Franz. Meanwhile, she looked at Franz laughing. Franz’s face flushed like a red door, but he said nothing and instead took out his sketchbook and sketched while gazing at the woman’s eyes. The woman felt uncomfortable while Franz was sketching her, so she walked toward Franz and said, “Sir, I don’t allow you to draw me.”
“Oh, is this a woman?”
Franz handed the sketchbook to her, and the woman apologized to Franz. Franz was sketching a goose in his book. It seemed she didn’t know that goose means stupid woman in German.
Ken Sarkis says
Jim,
I remember a similar experience in my Drama class last year. I was screaming at a Chinese student, a very good actor, because he was looking on his iPhone while i was trying to teach him. The student began to sketch a picture on some paper. I said to him: “Jim, you are not allowed to sketch a picture of me!” . He showed me the picture and said: “Does this look like you?” It was a Zombie?
love,
Mr S
szachik@pvs.org says
Send us your submissions, Mr. Sarkis.