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Changing Culture
A man whose wife delivered a boy five months after their marriage, asked the gynaecologist the reason for this. The doctor said, 'I'll make it easy for you to understand, these days this often happens in the case of first child, but never afterwards.'


Consultation
A man visited his psychiatrist with complaint of difficulty sleeping at night. He stated the feeling of seeing ghosts under his bed. "Absolutely no problem" said the psychiatrist.  You need to see me once a week for total of 6 weeks. My consultation per visit will be 200 dollars. The patient did not show up. The psychiatrist came across the patient after a couple of weeks. How are you doing? I hope all is well, you did not come for the therapy asked the psychiatrist. Well the patient said, "I did not have the money to make it. I chopped the four legs of the bed. There is no space between the bed and floor for the ghost and I am sleeping well."


Professional thieves
An unemployed man used to watch from his rooftop, few men enjoying daily life at the local pub during the working hours. He always wondered if he could do the same. One day he approached them and requested to be part of their group. They said "we are thieves and if you are interested, join us." Same night, they went for theft at a local mansion. During the act, something fell in the kitchen and owner of the house screamed in the dark, "Who is it?" One of the thieves replied "Meow, Meow!" Owner said to family members, it seems to be a cat and there is no problem. Next day the new recruit wondered it is such a simple way out if things go wrong. He left the group to carry out such activity by himself. During the theft at night a decoration piece fell and woke up family members, one of them said in the dark, "Who is it?" The man said it is a "Cat, Cat!"


Reputation 
A businessman buys a new Rolls Royce car. After driving it for two days, it stops working. He is very angry and phones the Rolls Royce dealer. One of the engineers there opens the hood and says, 'Oh, my God there is no engine in it.' The businessman says, 'How is that possible? I have been driving it for the last two days' The engineer promptly replied; " You can drive a Rolls Royce for two days on our reputation alone'.


Trust
One day a CEO of a company gave a letter to the secretary to post. Next day he asked, "did you post the letter, I gave you." "Yes Sir," replied the secretary. Third day again he asked the secretary, "did you post the letter, I had given to you the other day." Yes, replied the secretary. On the fifth day, he asked the same question to the secretary. The secretary said, "You don't trust me!" he put his hand in the pocket and replied  "here is the letter and you can post it"


The Big Boss  
Once a man went to the pet store to buy a pet for himself. The salesman offered him three monkeys. He asks the price of the first monkey. The shopkeeper says, "200 dollars, as he knows computers and typing".

He asks the price of the second one and the shopkeeper says, "500 dollars". On asking why so expensive, the shopkeeper says, "he knows how to surf the internet and also web designing". He asks the price of third monkey and the shopkeeper says, "2000 dollars". Why so expensive, does he know everything? asks the man. "That I don’t know. He doesn’t do anything, he just sits around;  but the other two monkeys call him the big boss".


Advertisement
A rich man had expired and left for the heavenly abode. God said, "I see you have a reference letter but I am sorry, I can't bring you back to life again. However, I can show you a sample of heaven and hell and you can have a choice of where to go". 

In heaven everyone was meditating, but in hell everyone was dancing. Hesitatingly, he said; "I'd prefer hell".

When he arrived in hell he was picked up by a demon and put in a cauldron of burning oil. He shouted; "What is going on here". And God said, "What you saw before was a publicity stunt. This is reality".


Diagnosis
An old lady went to a doctor and said, "Doctor, I ache whereever I touch". The doctor asked her to touch her elbow and she winced in pain. The doctor asked her to touch her forehead and she jumped in agony. On asking her to touch her ankle thesame thing happened. Every- where she touched it was very painful for her.

The doctor was surprised and asked her to undergo a complete examination, including X-rays, scans etc. After a couple of days she came back to get her problem fixed. We have found your problem, the doctor said. "You have broken your finger".

 

 

 

 


Dr. Gurprit S. Lamba comes from a medical family. Born in North India, Dr. Lamba, trained in Internal Medicine. He taught at medical schools in India and in the Caribbean and practiced in diverse clinical and cultural settings, from urban and academic to rural and primary care, and from Asian to Western cultures. Dr. Lamba believes laughter is not only beneficial to individual health, but encourages understanding and facilitates communication and harmony among people everywhere.

If you are a WPA-TPS member and want to contribute a pellet of laughter, please contact
Gurprit S. Lamba, M.D.