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		<title>Mullah Nasrudin and the misunderstanding</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mullah Nasrudin immigrated to the USA and became a university professor. One day he arrived at the weekly university talk open to all the public. Typically these talks were given by visiting professors and attended by the university staff and their spouses, as well as few students and general public.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mullah Nasrudin immigrated to the USA and became a university professor. One day he arrived at the weekly university talk open to all the public. Typically these talks were given by visiting professors and attended by the university staff and their spouses, as well as few students and general public.</p>
<p>As Nasrudin entered the huge lecture theater the university president took him to the side and said, &#8220;You are giving the talk.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Mullah replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m not ready for a lecture. What happened to the guy who was supposed to give the talk?&#8221;</p>
<p>The president informed him that the visiting professor had been delayed because of a snow storm and he had to give the talk.</p>
<p>Nasrudin asked, &#8220;Why me and what&#8217;s the topiv?&#8221;</p>
<p>The President told him, &#8220;You talk on the subject of sex because you are the only one who&#8217;s spouse is not here,&#8221; and before he could complain he pulled Nasruding with him to the podium and they announced that professor Nasrudin was going to give a talk on sex and marital bliss.</p>
<p>So Nasrudin started to wing it and soon he was quite enjoying himself and got into a stride. Everyone really enjoyed the talk. Forty five minutes later he finished and received a standing ovation.</p>
<p>That evening when Nasrudin got home his wife asked how the day had gone? The Mullah said that he had given a talk.</p>
<p>&#8220;Really,&#8221; asked his wife, &#8220;What was the talk about?&#8221;</p>
<p>The Mullah did not wish to tell his wife that he had been talking about sex and marital bliss and perhaps reveled some information about their sex life and bedroom happening. So he replied, &#8220;I talked about sailing.&#8221;</p>
<p>His wife was incredulous. She said, &#8220;But you don&#8217;t know anything about sailing?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I know that, but they didn&#8217;t,&#8221; and that was the end of the conversation.</p>
<p>The next day Nasrudin&#8217;s wife bumped into a couple of ladies who had heard the talk. One of then told her, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know your husband was such an expert in the subject.&#8221;Nasrudin&#8217;s wife said, &#8220;Oh, no he really isn&#8217;t such an expert. In fact he&#8217;s only done it twice, and the first time he lost his hat and the second time he fell over the side.</p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">***</h1>
<p>I heard the above teaching story in a seminar and changed it and put it in my own words as a Mullah Nasrudin story. As I have mentioned before when I find a teaching story with the right kind of absurdity that it could be a Nasrudin story I make it into one.
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		<title>The truth and the hundred monkey phenomenon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the story goes:
In the nineteen sixties or seventies some Japanese behavioral biologists were conducting a research project on a group of monkeys which lived around the shores on a series of islands off Japan.
They fed the monkeys some kind of tuber roots (yams. sweet potatoes or something similar). The roots were not washed and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mullah Nasrudin immigrated to the USA and became a university professor. One day he arrived at the weekly university talk open to all the public. Typically these talks were given by visiting professors and attended by the university staff and their spouses, as well as few students and general public.</p>
<p>As Nasrudin entered the huge lecture theater the university president took him to the side and said, &#8220;You are giving the talk.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Mullah replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m not ready for a lecture. What happened to the guy who was supposed to give the talk?&#8221;</p>
<p>The president informed him that the visiting professor had been delayed because of a snow storm and he had to give the talk.</p>
<p>Nasrudin asked, &#8220;Why me and what&#8217;s the topiv?&#8221;</p>
<p>The President told him, &#8220;You talk on the subject of sex because you are the only one who&#8217;s spouse is not here,&#8221; and before he could complain he pulled Nasruding with him to the podium and they announced that professor Nasrudin was going to give a talk on sex and marital bliss.</p>
<p>So Nasrudin started to wing it and soon he was quite enjoying himself and got into a stride. Everyone really enjoyed the talk. Forty five minutes later he finished and received a standing ovation.</p>
<p>That evening when Nasrudin got home his wife asked how the day had gone? The Mullah said that he had given a talk.</p>
<p>&#8220;Really,&#8221; asked his wife, &#8220;What was the talk about?&#8221;</p>
<p>The Mullah did not wish to tell his wife that he had been talking about sex and marital bliss and perhaps reveled some information about their sex life and bedroom happening. So he replied, &#8220;I talked about sailing.&#8221;</p>
<p>His wife was incredulous. She said, &#8220;But you don&#8217;t know anything about sailing?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I know that, but they didn&#8217;t,&#8221; and that was the end of the conversation.</p>
<p>The next day Nasrudin&#8217;s wife bumped into a couple of ladies who had heard the talk. One of then told her, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know your husband was such an expert in the subject.&#8221;Nasrudin&#8217;s wife said, &#8220;Oh, no he really isn&#8217;t such an expert. In fact he&#8217;s only done it twice, and the first time he lost his hat and the second time he fell over the side.</p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">***</h1>
<p>I heard the above teaching story in a seminar and changed it and put it in my own words as a Mullah Nasrudin story. As I have mentioned before when I find a teaching story with the right kind of absurdity that it could be a Nasrudin story I make it into one.
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		<title>Mullah Nasrudin the priest and the minister</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mullah Nasrudin was walking in the countryside with a priest and a minister. It was a hot day and they were sweating  profusely. Nasrudin cried aloud, &#8220;Dear God, we are three of your hard working servants, please let us find solace from this heat.&#8221;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mullah Nasrudin immigrated to the USA and became a university professor. One day he arrived at the weekly university talk open to all the public. Typically these talks were given by visiting professors and attended by the university staff and their spouses, as well as few students and general public.</p>
<p>As Nasrudin entered the huge lecture theater the university president took him to the side and said, &#8220;You are giving the talk.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Mullah replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m not ready for a lecture. What happened to the guy who was supposed to give the talk?&#8221;</p>
<p>The president informed him that the visiting professor had been delayed because of a snow storm and he had to give the talk.</p>
<p>Nasrudin asked, &#8220;Why me and what&#8217;s the topiv?&#8221;</p>
<p>The President told him, &#8220;You talk on the subject of sex because you are the only one who&#8217;s spouse is not here,&#8221; and before he could complain he pulled Nasruding with him to the podium and they announced that professor Nasrudin was going to give a talk on sex and marital bliss.</p>
<p>So Nasrudin started to wing it and soon he was quite enjoying himself and got into a stride. Everyone really enjoyed the talk. Forty five minutes later he finished and received a standing ovation.</p>
<p>That evening when Nasrudin got home his wife asked how the day had gone? The Mullah said that he had given a talk.</p>
<p>&#8220;Really,&#8221; asked his wife, &#8220;What was the talk about?&#8221;</p>
<p>The Mullah did not wish to tell his wife that he had been talking about sex and marital bliss and perhaps reveled some information about their sex life and bedroom happening. So he replied, &#8220;I talked about sailing.&#8221;</p>
<p>His wife was incredulous. She said, &#8220;But you don&#8217;t know anything about sailing?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I know that, but they didn&#8217;t,&#8221; and that was the end of the conversation.</p>
<p>The next day Nasrudin&#8217;s wife bumped into a couple of ladies who had heard the talk. One of then told her, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know your husband was such an expert in the subject.&#8221;Nasrudin&#8217;s wife said, &#8220;Oh, no he really isn&#8217;t such an expert. In fact he&#8217;s only done it twice, and the first time he lost his hat and the second time he fell over the side.</p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">***</h1>
<p>I heard the above teaching story in a seminar and changed it and put it in my own words as a Mullah Nasrudin story. As I have mentioned before when I find a teaching story with the right kind of absurdity that it could be a Nasrudin story I make it into one.
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		<title>Mullah Nasrudin the Calvinist</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of these Mullah Nasrudin stories I remember from my childhood. I heard them in Iran from oral traditions. I recreated them from my memory into English (not translation but recreation since I do not always remember the original Persian stories). Others I have got from a few Persian books I have gathered over the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mullah Nasrudin immigrated to the USA and became a university professor. One day he arrived at the weekly university talk open to all the public. Typically these talks were given by visiting professors and attended by the university staff and their spouses, as well as few students and general public.</p>
<p>As Nasrudin entered the huge lecture theater the university president took him to the side and said, &#8220;You are giving the talk.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Mullah replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m not ready for a lecture. What happened to the guy who was supposed to give the talk?&#8221;</p>
<p>The president informed him that the visiting professor had been delayed because of a snow storm and he had to give the talk.</p>
<p>Nasrudin asked, &#8220;Why me and what&#8217;s the topiv?&#8221;</p>
<p>The President told him, &#8220;You talk on the subject of sex because you are the only one who&#8217;s spouse is not here,&#8221; and before he could complain he pulled Nasruding with him to the podium and they announced that professor Nasrudin was going to give a talk on sex and marital bliss.</p>
<p>So Nasrudin started to wing it and soon he was quite enjoying himself and got into a stride. Everyone really enjoyed the talk. Forty five minutes later he finished and received a standing ovation.</p>
<p>That evening when Nasrudin got home his wife asked how the day had gone? The Mullah said that he had given a talk.</p>
<p>&#8220;Really,&#8221; asked his wife, &#8220;What was the talk about?&#8221;</p>
<p>The Mullah did not wish to tell his wife that he had been talking about sex and marital bliss and perhaps reveled some information about their sex life and bedroom happening. So he replied, &#8220;I talked about sailing.&#8221;</p>
<p>His wife was incredulous. She said, &#8220;But you don&#8217;t know anything about sailing?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I know that, but they didn&#8217;t,&#8221; and that was the end of the conversation.</p>
<p>The next day Nasrudin&#8217;s wife bumped into a couple of ladies who had heard the talk. One of then told her, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know your husband was such an expert in the subject.&#8221;Nasrudin&#8217;s wife said, &#8220;Oh, no he really isn&#8217;t such an expert. In fact he&#8217;s only done it twice, and the first time he lost his hat and the second time he fell over the side.</p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">***</h1>
<p>I heard the above teaching story in a seminar and changed it and put it in my own words as a Mullah Nasrudin story. As I have mentioned before when I find a teaching story with the right kind of absurdity that it could be a Nasrudin story I make it into one.
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		<title>Insincere story of sincere</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard one of my heroes in the field of self-improvement tell this insincere story of sincere:
The etymology of sincere is that the word comes from the Latin sine cera (without wax). It derives from the fact the the Romans loved marble statues. These were very difficult to sculpt without breakage. So the typical sculptor [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mullah Nasrudin immigrated to the USA and became a university professor. One day he arrived at the weekly university talk open to all the public. Typically these talks were given by visiting professors and attended by the university staff and their spouses, as well as few students and general public.</p>
<p>As Nasrudin entered the huge lecture theater the university president took him to the side and said, &#8220;You are giving the talk.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Mullah replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m not ready for a lecture. What happened to the guy who was supposed to give the talk?&#8221;</p>
<p>The president informed him that the visiting professor had been delayed because of a snow storm and he had to give the talk.</p>
<p>Nasrudin asked, &#8220;Why me and what&#8217;s the topiv?&#8221;</p>
<p>The President told him, &#8220;You talk on the subject of sex because you are the only one who&#8217;s spouse is not here,&#8221; and before he could complain he pulled Nasruding with him to the podium and they announced that professor Nasrudin was going to give a talk on sex and marital bliss.</p>
<p>So Nasrudin started to wing it and soon he was quite enjoying himself and got into a stride. Everyone really enjoyed the talk. Forty five minutes later he finished and received a standing ovation.</p>
<p>That evening when Nasrudin got home his wife asked how the day had gone? The Mullah said that he had given a talk.</p>
<p>&#8220;Really,&#8221; asked his wife, &#8220;What was the talk about?&#8221;</p>
<p>The Mullah did not wish to tell his wife that he had been talking about sex and marital bliss and perhaps reveled some information about their sex life and bedroom happening. So he replied, &#8220;I talked about sailing.&#8221;</p>
<p>His wife was incredulous. She said, &#8220;But you don&#8217;t know anything about sailing?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I know that, but they didn&#8217;t,&#8221; and that was the end of the conversation.</p>
<p>The next day Nasrudin&#8217;s wife bumped into a couple of ladies who had heard the talk. One of then told her, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know your husband was such an expert in the subject.&#8221;Nasrudin&#8217;s wife said, &#8220;Oh, no he really isn&#8217;t such an expert. In fact he&#8217;s only done it twice, and the first time he lost his hat and the second time he fell over the side.</p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">***</h1>
<p>I heard the above teaching story in a seminar and changed it and put it in my own words as a Mullah Nasrudin story. As I have mentioned before when I find a teaching story with the right kind of absurdity that it could be a Nasrudin story I make it into one.
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		<title>Question of truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to a friend yesterday about seminar leaders and self-improvement gurus who use untrue stories to back up their point. I told the story of one of the most popular (and hence richest) of these authors and how he claimed that the word desire comes from the Latin roots &#8220;De Sire&#8221; meaning of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mullah Nasrudin immigrated to the USA and became a university professor. One day he arrived at the weekly university talk open to all the public. Typically these talks were given by visiting professors and attended by the university staff and their spouses, as well as few students and general public.</p>
<p>As Nasrudin entered the huge lecture theater the university president took him to the side and said, &#8220;You are giving the talk.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Mullah replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m not ready for a lecture. What happened to the guy who was supposed to give the talk?&#8221;</p>
<p>The president informed him that the visiting professor had been delayed because of a snow storm and he had to give the talk.</p>
<p>Nasrudin asked, &#8220;Why me and what&#8217;s the topiv?&#8221;</p>
<p>The President told him, &#8220;You talk on the subject of sex because you are the only one who&#8217;s spouse is not here,&#8221; and before he could complain he pulled Nasruding with him to the podium and they announced that professor Nasrudin was going to give a talk on sex and marital bliss.</p>
<p>So Nasrudin started to wing it and soon he was quite enjoying himself and got into a stride. Everyone really enjoyed the talk. Forty five minutes later he finished and received a standing ovation.</p>
<p>That evening when Nasrudin got home his wife asked how the day had gone? The Mullah said that he had given a talk.</p>
<p>&#8220;Really,&#8221; asked his wife, &#8220;What was the talk about?&#8221;</p>
<p>The Mullah did not wish to tell his wife that he had been talking about sex and marital bliss and perhaps reveled some information about their sex life and bedroom happening. So he replied, &#8220;I talked about sailing.&#8221;</p>
<p>His wife was incredulous. She said, &#8220;But you don&#8217;t know anything about sailing?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I know that, but they didn&#8217;t,&#8221; and that was the end of the conversation.</p>
<p>The next day Nasrudin&#8217;s wife bumped into a couple of ladies who had heard the talk. One of then told her, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know your husband was such an expert in the subject.&#8221;Nasrudin&#8217;s wife said, &#8220;Oh, no he really isn&#8217;t such an expert. In fact he&#8217;s only done it twice, and the first time he lost his hat and the second time he fell over the side.</p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">***</h1>
<p>I heard the above teaching story in a seminar and changed it and put it in my own words as a Mullah Nasrudin story. As I have mentioned before when I find a teaching story with the right kind of absurdity that it could be a Nasrudin story I make it into one.
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		<title>I felt the earth move</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This afternoon we had one of those typical Southern Californian earth quacks. It reminded me of a time about twenty five years ago when there was another Lakers/Celtics rivalry. Those were the times of Magic Johnson and Kamal Abdal Jabbar on our side and Larry Bird on theirs.
Anyway at the time I worked for a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mullah Nasrudin immigrated to the USA and became a university professor. One day he arrived at the weekly university talk open to all the public. Typically these talks were given by visiting professors and attended by the university staff and their spouses, as well as few students and general public.</p>
<p>As Nasrudin entered the huge lecture theater the university president took him to the side and said, &#8220;You are giving the talk.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Mullah replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m not ready for a lecture. What happened to the guy who was supposed to give the talk?&#8221;</p>
<p>The president informed him that the visiting professor had been delayed because of a snow storm and he had to give the talk.</p>
<p>Nasrudin asked, &#8220;Why me and what&#8217;s the topiv?&#8221;</p>
<p>The President told him, &#8220;You talk on the subject of sex because you are the only one who&#8217;s spouse is not here,&#8221; and before he could complain he pulled Nasruding with him to the podium and they announced that professor Nasrudin was going to give a talk on sex and marital bliss.</p>
<p>So Nasrudin started to wing it and soon he was quite enjoying himself and got into a stride. Everyone really enjoyed the talk. Forty five minutes later he finished and received a standing ovation.</p>
<p>That evening when Nasrudin got home his wife asked how the day had gone? The Mullah said that he had given a talk.</p>
<p>&#8220;Really,&#8221; asked his wife, &#8220;What was the talk about?&#8221;</p>
<p>The Mullah did not wish to tell his wife that he had been talking about sex and marital bliss and perhaps reveled some information about their sex life and bedroom happening. So he replied, &#8220;I talked about sailing.&#8221;</p>
<p>His wife was incredulous. She said, &#8220;But you don&#8217;t know anything about sailing?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I know that, but they didn&#8217;t,&#8221; and that was the end of the conversation.</p>
<p>The next day Nasrudin&#8217;s wife bumped into a couple of ladies who had heard the talk. One of then told her, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know your husband was such an expert in the subject.&#8221;Nasrudin&#8217;s wife said, &#8220;Oh, no he really isn&#8217;t such an expert. In fact he&#8217;s only done it twice, and the first time he lost his hat and the second time he fell over the side.</p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">***</h1>
<p>I heard the above teaching story in a seminar and changed it and put it in my own words as a Mullah Nasrudin story. As I have mentioned before when I find a teaching story with the right kind of absurdity that it could be a Nasrudin story I make it into one.
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		<title>even idiots can be right at times</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My family spent the summer of 1960 in Geneva Switzerland. The apartment we rented for the summer overlooked Lake Geneva and one could see Mont Blanc from the same window too.
We had great time walking by the lake and took lots of photos. We would drive for day trips to France on the other side [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mullah Nasrudin immigrated to the USA and became a university professor. One day he arrived at the weekly university talk open to all the public. Typically these talks were given by visiting professors and attended by the university staff and their spouses, as well as few students and general public.</p>
<p>As Nasrudin entered the huge lecture theater the university president took him to the side and said, &#8220;You are giving the talk.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Mullah replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m not ready for a lecture. What happened to the guy who was supposed to give the talk?&#8221;</p>
<p>The president informed him that the visiting professor had been delayed because of a snow storm and he had to give the talk.</p>
<p>Nasrudin asked, &#8220;Why me and what&#8217;s the topiv?&#8221;</p>
<p>The President told him, &#8220;You talk on the subject of sex because you are the only one who&#8217;s spouse is not here,&#8221; and before he could complain he pulled Nasruding with him to the podium and they announced that professor Nasrudin was going to give a talk on sex and marital bliss.</p>
<p>So Nasrudin started to wing it and soon he was quite enjoying himself and got into a stride. Everyone really enjoyed the talk. Forty five minutes later he finished and received a standing ovation.</p>
<p>That evening when Nasrudin got home his wife asked how the day had gone? The Mullah said that he had given a talk.</p>
<p>&#8220;Really,&#8221; asked his wife, &#8220;What was the talk about?&#8221;</p>
<p>The Mullah did not wish to tell his wife that he had been talking about sex and marital bliss and perhaps reveled some information about their sex life and bedroom happening. So he replied, &#8220;I talked about sailing.&#8221;</p>
<p>His wife was incredulous. She said, &#8220;But you don&#8217;t know anything about sailing?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I know that, but they didn&#8217;t,&#8221; and that was the end of the conversation.</p>
<p>The next day Nasrudin&#8217;s wife bumped into a couple of ladies who had heard the talk. One of then told her, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know your husband was such an expert in the subject.&#8221;Nasrudin&#8217;s wife said, &#8220;Oh, no he really isn&#8217;t such an expert. In fact he&#8217;s only done it twice, and the first time he lost his hat and the second time he fell over the side.</p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">***</h1>
<p>I heard the above teaching story in a seminar and changed it and put it in my own words as a Mullah Nasrudin story. As I have mentioned before when I find a teaching story with the right kind of absurdity that it could be a Nasrudin story I make it into one.
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		<title>The man who gained weight in prison</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a true story. In 1953 the people of Iran threw out Mohamad Reza Pahlavi, the puppet of Angelo Iranian oil company (later to be known as British Petroleum &#8211; BP of Gulf of Mexico fame). Unfortunately the British government had convinced the ignorant US government that the democratically elected nationalistic government was pro-communist. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mullah Nasrudin immigrated to the USA and became a university professor. One day he arrived at the weekly university talk open to all the public. Typically these talks were given by visiting professors and attended by the university staff and their spouses, as well as few students and general public.</p>
<p>As Nasrudin entered the huge lecture theater the university president took him to the side and said, &#8220;You are giving the talk.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Mullah replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m not ready for a lecture. What happened to the guy who was supposed to give the talk?&#8221;</p>
<p>The president informed him that the visiting professor had been delayed because of a snow storm and he had to give the talk.</p>
<p>Nasrudin asked, &#8220;Why me and what&#8217;s the topiv?&#8221;</p>
<p>The President told him, &#8220;You talk on the subject of sex because you are the only one who&#8217;s spouse is not here,&#8221; and before he could complain he pulled Nasruding with him to the podium and they announced that professor Nasrudin was going to give a talk on sex and marital bliss.</p>
<p>So Nasrudin started to wing it and soon he was quite enjoying himself and got into a stride. Everyone really enjoyed the talk. Forty five minutes later he finished and received a standing ovation.</p>
<p>That evening when Nasrudin got home his wife asked how the day had gone? The Mullah said that he had given a talk.</p>
<p>&#8220;Really,&#8221; asked his wife, &#8220;What was the talk about?&#8221;</p>
<p>The Mullah did not wish to tell his wife that he had been talking about sex and marital bliss and perhaps reveled some information about their sex life and bedroom happening. So he replied, &#8220;I talked about sailing.&#8221;</p>
<p>His wife was incredulous. She said, &#8220;But you don&#8217;t know anything about sailing?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I know that, but they didn&#8217;t,&#8221; and that was the end of the conversation.</p>
<p>The next day Nasrudin&#8217;s wife bumped into a couple of ladies who had heard the talk. One of then told her, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know your husband was such an expert in the subject.&#8221;Nasrudin&#8217;s wife said, &#8220;Oh, no he really isn&#8217;t such an expert. In fact he&#8217;s only done it twice, and the first time he lost his hat and the second time he fell over the side.</p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">***</h1>
<p>I heard the above teaching story in a seminar and changed it and put it in my own words as a Mullah Nasrudin story. As I have mentioned before when I find a teaching story with the right kind of absurdity that it could be a Nasrudin story I make it into one.
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		<title>King of the farts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a very simplistic teaching story that my mother used to tell us when we were little childre4n. We loved hearing my mother talk about the king of the farts&#8230;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mullah Nasrudin immigrated to the USA and became a university professor. One day he arrived at the weekly university talk open to all the public. Typically these talks were given by visiting professors and attended by the university staff and their spouses, as well as few students and general public.</p>
<p>As Nasrudin entered the huge lecture theater the university president took him to the side and said, &#8220;You are giving the talk.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Mullah replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m not ready for a lecture. What happened to the guy who was supposed to give the talk?&#8221;</p>
<p>The president informed him that the visiting professor had been delayed because of a snow storm and he had to give the talk.</p>
<p>Nasrudin asked, &#8220;Why me and what&#8217;s the topiv?&#8221;</p>
<p>The President told him, &#8220;You talk on the subject of sex because you are the only one who&#8217;s spouse is not here,&#8221; and before he could complain he pulled Nasruding with him to the podium and they announced that professor Nasrudin was going to give a talk on sex and marital bliss.</p>
<p>So Nasrudin started to wing it and soon he was quite enjoying himself and got into a stride. Everyone really enjoyed the talk. Forty five minutes later he finished and received a standing ovation.</p>
<p>That evening when Nasrudin got home his wife asked how the day had gone? The Mullah said that he had given a talk.</p>
<p>&#8220;Really,&#8221; asked his wife, &#8220;What was the talk about?&#8221;</p>
<p>The Mullah did not wish to tell his wife that he had been talking about sex and marital bliss and perhaps reveled some information about their sex life and bedroom happening. So he replied, &#8220;I talked about sailing.&#8221;</p>
<p>His wife was incredulous. She said, &#8220;But you don&#8217;t know anything about sailing?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I know that, but they didn&#8217;t,&#8221; and that was the end of the conversation.</p>
<p>The next day Nasrudin&#8217;s wife bumped into a couple of ladies who had heard the talk. One of then told her, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know your husband was such an expert in the subject.&#8221;Nasrudin&#8217;s wife said, &#8220;Oh, no he really isn&#8217;t such an expert. In fact he&#8217;s only done it twice, and the first time he lost his hat and the second time he fell over the side.</p>
<h1 style="text-align: center;">***</h1>
<p>I heard the above teaching story in a seminar and changed it and put it in my own words as a Mullah Nasrudin story. As I have mentioned before when I find a teaching story with the right kind of absurdity that it could be a Nasrudin story I make it into one.
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