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the Mulla said, "IT WAS NOT AN OIL DEAL, IT WAS A REAL ESTATE DEAL. IT WAS NOT IN OKLAHOMA, BUT IN VIRGINIA. I AM SORRY, BUT THE MAN HAD HIS FIGURES MIXED UP. IT WAS NOT $800,000, BUT $800. AND BESIDES THAT, IT WAS NOT A PROFIT, BUT A LOSS. AND, IN THE END, IF YOU DON'T MIND, LET ME TELL YOU, THAT I AM NOT THE MAN CONCERNED, SIR."
137.
Mulla Nasrudin, the landlord of a rather rundown rooming house, had led a prospective tenant to a third-floor room with badly spotted wall paper.
Nasrudin: "The last man who lived in this room was an inventor he invented some sort of explosive."
Prospect: "Oh, these spots on the walls are chemicals?"
Nasrudin: "NO, THE INVENTOR."
138.
Mulla Nasrudin was called in the election bribery case.
"You say," asked the judge, "that you were given $10 to vote for the Democrats, and you got another $10 to vote for the republicans?"
"Yes, Sir, Your Honour," said the Mulla.
"And how did you vote?" asked the judge.
"YOUR HONOUR," said Nasrudin, "I VOTED ACCORDING TO MY CONSCIENCE."
139.
Mulla Nasrudin's wife was upset and was confiding in her maid. "Do you know," she said, "I suspect my husband is having an affair with the cook."
"OH," cried the maid. "YOU CAN'T BELIEVE THAT. YOU ARE JUST SAYING THAT TO MAKE ME JEALOUS."
140.
"You sure do look downhearted, Mulla? What's the matter?" asked a friend.
"It's my future that worries me," said Nasrudin.
"What makes your future so black?" the friend asked.
"MY PAST," replied Nasrudin.
141.
A friend was visiting Mulla Nasrudin. "My boy has just written me from jail," he said. "He says they're going to cut six months off his sentence for good behaviour."
"MY," said Mulla Nasrudin. "YOU MUST BE PROUD TO HAVE A SON LIKE THAT."
142.
Mulla Nasrudin walked into a psychiatrist's office, opened a tobacco pouch, and stuffed his nose with tobacco.
"Man, I can see that you need me," the psychiatrist said. "Come on in and tell me your problem."
"MY ONLY PROBLEM IS," said Nasrudin, "I NEED A LIGHT."
143.
Mulla Nasrudin climbed
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