JOKE & ANECDOTE

JOKE

Two kids are playing in a pool—a toddler girl and boy. The little girl looks between the boy's legs then asks, "Can I touch that?"

The little boy replies, "No, you already pulled yours off."


ANECDOTE

My cousin, Maria, who was born in Belize, but has spent half of her forty-three years of life living in the United States, only recently heard of the letter 'z'. Until 1981, Belize was called British Honduras and accordingly, people—including Maria—learned to spelled words the European way like color instead of colour and theatre instead of theater.

During a family backyard cookout last July, my precocious nine-year old niece,Kate, started spelling all the words she knew that started with the last letter of the alphabet. Hearing her, Maria turned to my sister, Kate’s mother, and asked in her distinctive Belizean dialect, “Ah whey she di sey dey?”

"What?" my sister queried, clearly confused.

"What was di fuss lettah di chile mi sey juss now when she middi spell zebra?" Maria replied, pointing at my niece.

"Z," my sister said.

"Z? Ah whey dat? I nevah hear ’bout dat before.”

Raucous laughter erupted from my mother, siblings, and cousins who had all paused with their pina coladas in hand to listen to the exchange. When everyone settled down, my sister turned to Maria again and said, "After being in this country over two decades, how is it you have never heard of the letter 'z'?"

"Me don't know. Me always said zed. Like zoo woulda be zed-o-o."

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Got a joke or funny anecdote? Holler! BTW, today's joke was the courtesy of Tiger. :-)

Later Lovelies,
-Betsy Ice