Now This Is Confidence

[Ajit]

George Bush was sitting in his office wondering whom to invade
next
when his telephone
rang.

"Hello, Mr. Bush!" a heavily accented voice said, "This is
Gurmukh
from Phagwara, District Kapurthala, Punjab . I am ringing to
inform
you that we are officially declaring the war on
you!"

"Well, Gurmukh," Bush replied, "This is indeed important news!
How
big is your
army"

"Right now," said Gurmukh, after a moment's calculation, "there
is
myself, my cousin Sukhdev, my next door neighbor Bhagat, and
the
entire kabaddi team from the gurudwara. That makes
eight"

Bush paused. "I must tell you, Gurmukh that I have one million
men
in my army waiting to move on my
command."

"Arrey O! Main kya.." said Gurmukh. "I'll have to ring you
back!"

Sure enough, Gurmukh rang again the next
day.

"Mr. Bush, the war is still on! We have managed to get
ourselves
airborne...... We've modified Amrik's tractor by adding a
couple of
shotguns, sticking on some wings and the pind's generator.
Four
school pass boys from Malpur have joined us as
well!"

Bush was silent for a minute and then cleared his throat. "I
must
tell you, Gurmukh, that I have 10,000 bombers and 20,000
fighter
planes. My military complex is surrounded by laser-
guided,
surface-to-air missile sites. And since we last spoke,
I've
increased my army to TWO
MILLION!"

"Tera pala hove...." said Gurmuk, "I'll have to ring you
back."

Sure enough, Gurmukh called again the next
day.

"Kiddan, Mr.Bush! I am sorry to tell you that we have had to
call
off the
war."

"I'm sorry to hear that," said Bush. "Why the sudden change
of

heart"

"Well," said Gurmukh, "we've all had a long chat over a couple
of
lassi's, and decided there's no way we can feed two
million
prisoners of
wars!"

NOW THAT'S CALLED CONFIDENCE...

Ajit