Sunday, December 02, 2007

A teddy bear called [YOU fill in the blank!]

In a technical college where I once worked (no details, I am anxious to avoid a fatwa), we had a one-year contract to train young men from a certain Arab state. In coffee and lunch breaks, these Arab lads filled the canteen, leaving no seats for any other students. Apparently - or perhaps I should say, allegedly - the other students found a solution: one of them would put his head round the door of the canteen and shout:
"Mohammed! Telephone!"
And two thirds of the seated students would make a rush for the corridor where the phone was situated. Fortunately, not one of them was a teddy bear.

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