Posting this in it's original Chinese version [ in english but with Chinese names and ..note MP stands for Military Police]
Will explain after joke why I think the asian version is the best [ how's that for a long winded- most likely unnecesary intro?!}
The MP was making his rounds through the Sembawang kampung area. In Ah Chye's
kampung house, the MP noticed a pig with a wooden leg hobbling about.
"Excuse me," the MP said to ah Chye, "but why does that pig
have a wooden leg?"
"Oh, it's like this, sir... one night a robber entered our household,
tied all of us up, stole our jewelry and was about to escape when the pig came
out of nowhere, attacked the robber and saved us all."
"Oh, I see," said the MP uncertainly, "but I still don't
understand. Why does the pig have a wooden leg?"
"Oh, it's like this, sir... There was a fire when we were all out to the
cinema at Chong Pang. The pig alerted our neighbors, ran around organizing a
water bucket system and helped the firemen put out the fire."
The MP was getting quite frustrated. "Listen, Mr Chye, That is all very
interesting, but I still don't understand why the pig has a wooden
leg."
"Oh, it's like this, sir..." Ah Chye said. "We used to have an
old well. One day, our little daughter fell down the well. The pig jumped in,
saved our girl, covered the well with planks and we never had that trouble
again."
The MP shouted, "I DON'T UNDERSTAND! Why does that damn pig have a
wooden leg?"
Ah Chye appeared absolutely unfazed. "Well, you know," he said
finally, "with a pig that good, how can you eat it all at once..."
When I was posting on Yahoo on the FNSR board [ before I knew any better about IHUB's superior message boards] I met a guy who asked me a frog question on the board and he told me an interesting story. He is an American from NY or Boston [ forget which] who married a Chinese girl- he related a story she told him about her childhood . Apparently his wife's family was a very close knit group and very loving- but also very practical . She tells her husband that as a girl one night at dinner she notices they are having cat as the main dish. [ not that unusual I guess for them- funny/sad thing was that it was the family pet they were about to eat. The girl was horrified but her father assured her that the cat was getting older and had served its purpose and if they let the cat get too old as to be almost too tough to eat it would be akin to a sin. Waste not want not I suppose.
