Ibrahim is a germophobe who would give Monk a run for is money. He doesn’t drink out of other people’s cups, he doesn’t eat off even my cake plate after my cake is gone. He even keeps his toothbrush in a special holder away from anyone else’s. Apparently he also is hip enough to know [...]
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Toothbrush hygiene
Posted in Family, Happenings, Humor, Uncategorized, tagged domestic bliss, Humor, occurances on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Mozlem Joke
Posted in Humor, tagged Humor, joke, Muslim, uncharted island on August 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Who says Muslims can’t laugh at themselves? ******** A ship was plying the open seas when it came upon an uncharted isle. Seeing smoke curling up from its beaches the crew decided to take a closer look. When they dropped anchor and rowed ashore they found a man and three huts. “Oh, bless you! You’ve [...]
From Sewage to Shimmer
Posted in Happenings, Humor, tagged Humor, plumbing, syria on July 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“..my father-in-law arrived on his white horse, plunger unsheathed and ready to do battle.”
Pimp my ride
Posted in Cultural Observations, Humor on March 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Drivers in Damascus, like most other places, like to personalize their vehicles. Mini buses often have baby shoes (for good luck) hanging from the hitch in the back, and many private cars have things like fake grease splatter stickers adorning them (that one I’ll never get). Taxi drivers go all out. Taxis often have upolstered [...]
“That rooster business”
Posted in Humor on February 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
When I was a little girl my grandma used to say, upon finding the spot of blood you sometimes get in an egg, “We don’t need any of that rooster business!” Well, our neighbors have a rooster who is one serious businessman. For the past couple of days he’s been crowing to beat the band [...]
Fries with that?
Posted in Happenings, Humor on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today my daughters and I ordered take out from a new fast food place. We ordered chicken sandwiches with fries. When we opened the bags there were only sandwiches. We were like, “Where’re the fries??” We needn’t have worried, though. They were tucked safely inside the sandwiches. “Chicken sandwiches with fries.”
A Syrian Joke
Posted in Cultural Observations, Humor on February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
PICTURE OF HOMS, SYRIA From oyonalaalkaown.maktoobblog.com The other day in one of my ESL classes the lesson was about jokes and humor. One of my students told a Homsi joke. It’s funny how every culture has its own form of these jokes. In America when I was growing up we told “Polock” jokes. Of course [...]
