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Nasrudin. "I AM OUT IN THE BALLROOM."
87.
"I can't find anything organically wrong with you," the doctor said to Mulla Nasrudin. "As you know, many illnesses come from worry. You probably have some business or social problem that you should talk over with a good psychiatrist. A case very similar to yours came to me only a few weeks ago. The man had a $5,000 note due and could not pay it. Because of his money problem, he had worried himself into a state of nervous exhaustion."
"And did you cure him?" asked Mulla Nasrudin.
"Yes," said the doctor, "I just told him to stop worrying; that life was too short to make himself sick over a scrap of paper. Now he is back to normal. He has stopped worrying entirely."
"YES; I KNOW," said Nasrudin, sadly. "I AM THE ONE HE OWES THE $5,000 TO."
88.
It was the final hand of the night. The cards were dealt. The pot was opened. Plenty of raising went on.
Finally, the hands were called.
"I win," said one fellow. "I have three aces and a pair of queens."
"No, I win, ' said the second fellow. "I have three aces and a pair of kings."
"NONE OF YOU-ALL WIN," said Mulla Nasrudin, the third one. "I DO. I HAVE TWO DEUCES AND A THIRTY-EIGHT SPECIAL."
89.
Mulla Nasrudin and his two friends were arguing over whose profession was first established on earth.
"Mine was," said the surgeon. "The Bible says that Eve was made by carving a rib out of Adam."
"Not at all," said the engineer. "An engineering job came before that. In six days the earth was created out of chaos. That was an engineer's job."
"YES," said Mulla Nasrudin, the politician, "BUT WHO CREATED THE CHAOS?"
90.
Mulla Nasrudin, as a candidate, was working the rural precincts and getting his fences mended and votes lined up. On this particular day, he had his young son with him to mark down on index cards whether the voter was for or against him. In this way, he could get an idea of how things were going.
As they were getting out of the car in front of one farmhouse, the farmer came out the front door with a shotgun in his hand and screamed at the top of
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