richardb Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Ok in search of cheese ( and bread to make toast to put my cheese on ) i travelled to a Big C in Suwanapoom, Roi Et and had a look in the book shop. I saw a book . It may have been called Mr Paul. It was fallang jokes . Just jokes about fallang. It had a joke in english like "a fallang walks into a shop and asks for a coconut." The thai assistant says " yes coconuts are lovely how many children do you have!!!!" Pages of "jokes " Then the joke was in Thai ( script ) then an explanation in english as to what the joke was / why it was funny ( to a thai person/or an english speaker ). I meant to buy it on the spot but delayed and never saw it again in BKK or PTY despite asking.Back in town the bookshop had no knowledge of it. Was I on the Lao Kao mak mak or does this book exist? ps the " joke" i quoted was for illustration purposes only.it is not a real Thai joke or funny ( so far as I know ) Richard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiero Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 haha, i was racking my brains for a minute before i read you made the joke up, i was trying to think what possible link there was in thai culture between coconuts and kids :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sisaketmike Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 haha, i was racking my brains for a minute before i read you made the joke up, i was trying to think what possible link there was in thai culture between coconuts and kids :/ ชาวต่างชาติบางอย่างมีสมองเหมือนกับเป็นสวนมะพร้าว Some foreigners have a brain like a coconut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briggsy Posted February 4, 2010 Share Posted February 4, 2010 Are you sure the joke is not about a grammatical misuse of ลูก as in มีกี่ลูก How many coconuts? (using ลูก as the classifier) มีลูกกี่คน How many children? (using ลูก as the noun meaning child) Who knows without the book? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardb Posted February 4, 2010 Author Share Posted February 4, 2010 (edited) The book definitly exists see here from 2003 http://www.thailandqa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=934 and here ( link to the actual book no longer works ) http://www.thaipro.com/z1034b/686_thailand.html Any more recent sightings/where to buy Richard Edited February 4, 2010 by richardb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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