I am nothing.
I am nothing
An old Orthodox chestnut:
The Priest kneels and puts his forehead to the floor and says, "Before you oh Lord, I am nothing."
The Deacon looks at him, thinks it couldn't hurt, and kneels, puts his forehead to the floor, and says, "Before you oh Lord, I am nothing."
Frederick is watching this and thinking that it was a pretty good idea, so he goes in the middle of the nave, kneels and puts his forehead to the floor and says, "Before you oh Lord, I am nothing."
The Priest nudges the Deacon, "Look who thinks he's nothing!"
Forgive me if I offend, but I couldn't resist.
Oh, Waldemar, when I first heard this very old but irrevently funny joke it was the Rabbi, the Cantor and the janitor..............
A Pole told me one about a Polish farmer on the Russian/Polish border who caught a fairy. The fairy was indignant and demanded to set free at once! The farmer was cunning, "No, little one, first you give me three wishes". The fairy replied he couldn't give a wish, let alone three, so let now go. But our cunning friend held the little all the tighter and repeated his demand, louder! Eventually the fairy had no choice and agreed.
"Your first wish?", the fairy whined. "That the Chinese army invade Poland". The fairy looked puzzled but said, "Your first wish is granted, and now your second?" And the farmer again said, "That the Chinese army invade Poland". The fairy looked even more puzzled, but said, "It is done, and the third, Pani?" The farmer with a broad grin repeated, "Let the Chinese invade Poland!"
The exceedingly puzzled fairy asked, "First tell me why and I will grant your third and final wish?" And the farmer said because the Chinese will have to march through Russia.
The teller of this joke loved to regale me with his seemingly endless fund of "Russian" jokes. He hoped to make me uncomfortable. I just laughed or as a Chinese friend once advised on coping with difficult situations, 'Be still, be nothing'.
