#096 Tsar's Riddle

A Tsar had taken prisoner a rebel leader. The rebel leader's daughter went to the Tsar to beg him to spare her beloved father. She was a beautiful girl, but the Tsar looked at her with mixed feelings.

“I will free your father, and what’s more I will marry you,” he said to her, “If you are able to solve my riddle. If you fail, your father will die and you be forced to marry my stable boy.”

“Agreed,” said the girl, “what is the riddle?”

“You have to come back to me neither dressed nor naked,” said the Tsar “neither on foot nor on horseback, neither with gifts nor without gifts.”

The girl went away and thought hard. The next day she came before the Tsar wearing only a thick fishing net, so that she was neither dressed nor naked. She was riding on the back of a large dog, so that she was neither on foot nor on horseback. In her hands she had a quail, which she released in the Tsar's presence, so that she had come neither with a gift nor without a gift.

Tsar, who admired clever people as much as he admired brave ones, kept his word. He freed the rebel leader and married his beautiful young daughter.

-FIN-

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Author: Unknown

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#095 Truth About Men And Women

When a woman is 18, she is a football – 22 men going after her.

When a woman is 28, she is a hockey ball – 8 men going after her.

When a woman is 38, she is a golf ball – 1 man hitting her.

When a woman is 48, she is a ping pong ball – 2 men pushing to each other.

At 20, a man is like a coconut; so much to offer, so little to give.

At 30, a man is like a durian; dangerous but delicious.

At 40, a man is like a watermelon; big, round, and juicy.

At 50, a man is like a mandarin orange; the season comes once in a year.

At 60, a man is like a raisin; dried out, wrinkled, and cheap.

-FIN-

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#093 All Trades Have Their Experts

During the Song Dynasty, a man named Ye Yuan Qing became the top scholar. Then he walked pass a crowd and heard a woodman talking.

“What’s so great about that? If my family had been rich, I could be top scholar too!”

“Hmph! You want to be top scholar? Don’t overrate yourself. You should just keep chopping firewood for living!”

“There are many things to be learnt in life. I can chop firewood in any way I want. Can you do that?” boasted the woodman.

“Watch me!” said the woodman as he cut the wood in the way he wanted.

“That’s amazing!” said Ye Yuan Qing.

“What’s so great about that?” said an old man who happened to be there.

“Look he can pour oil into the bottle through the hole of a copper coin from such height! Brilliant!” said the woodman.

 

 “I have nothing to be proud of. Each trade has its own top scholar!” said Ye Yuan Qing.

-FIN-

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Author: Asiapac Books

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#092 Queen Of Arabia And Three Sheiks

Maura, who like to be said of as the most beautiful and powerful queen of Arabia, had many suitors. One by one she discarded them, until her list was reduced to just three sheiks. The three sheiks were all equally young and handsome. They were also rich and strong. It was very hard to decide who would be the best of them.

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One evening, Maura disguised herself and went to the camp of the three sheiks. As they were about to have dinner, Maura asked them for something to eat. The first gave her some leftover food. The second Sheik gave her some unappetizing camel’s tail. The third sheik, who was called Hakim, offered her some of the most tender and tasty meat. After dinner, the disguised queen left the sheik’s camp.

The following day, the queen invited the three sheiks to dinner at her palace. She ordered her servant to give each one exactly what they had given her the evening before. Hakim, who received a plate of delicious meat, refused to eat it if the other two sheiks could not share it with him.

This Sheik Hakim’s act finally convinced Queen Maura that he was the man for her.

“Without question, Hakim is the most generous of you,” she announced her choice to the sheiks. “So it is Hakim I will marry”.

-FIN-

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#090 Simply Irresitible For Women

Finding a bottle on the beach, Jake uncorked it and released a genie.

“Ah, now you get three wishes,” said the genie.

“Great!” Jake replied. “First I want one billion dollars.”

Poof! There was a flash, and a paper with Swiss bank account numbers appeared in Jake’s hand.

“Next, I want a Ferrari.”

Poof! Another flash and a shiny red Ferrari was parked next to him.

“Finally,” Jake said. “I want to be irresistible to women.”

Poof! There was another blinding flash, and Jake turned into a box of chocolates.

-FIN-

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