“Why John, what a stupid action this is,” said a Captain of the Horse, to his servant. “You have brought me a pair of boots that do not match. One has a high top and the other a low one.”
“I have been wondering about that myself, and I don’t understand it,” said the man, “but the most curious part of it is, that on the shoe-box stands another pair just like this one.”
The Jew’s Reasoning
An officer fell from his horse in a public square. A Jew standing near said: “This would never have happened to me, sir!”
“What, Jew, are you a better rider than I?”
“Not that,” replied the Jew, “but I should never have mounted the horse.”
Dense Stupidity
Sergeant (to a recruit):—“You idiot, you are so stupid that Schwarz could not have invented the gunpowder, if you had been within forty miles of him.”