Susan had just returned to the United States from a month-long trip to Asia. She'd been to China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and India. John picked her up at the airport and asked, "So, how was your trip?"

"Oh, it was terrible," she replied, "everywhere I went, the whole place was just full of foreigners and minorities."

COOKERY

The housewife gave the tramp a large piece of pie on condition that he should saw some wood. The tramp retired to the woodshed, but presently he reappeared at the back door of the house with the piece of pie still intact save for one mouthful bitten from the end.

"Madam," he said respectfully to the wondering woman, "if it's all the same to you, I'll eat the wood, and saw the pie."