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

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 :/

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 :/

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Some foreigners have a brain like a coconut.

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?

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, 201016 yr by richardb