Inspector Clueso and Sufi Thought

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Original post: Nalyd23

I was thinking about this and actually found it with Google.

Inspector Clueso: That's a nice doooogy. . . does your doooog bite?

Old man with pipe: No, my doooog does not bite

Inspector Clueso (extending hand toward small dog): Nice Doooogy

(the dog barks like mad maniac and bites clueso's hand)

Inspector Clueso: aagh!...I thought you said your dog doesn't bite!

Old man with pipe: That is not my doooog.

I forget which Pink Panther movie this comes from but it has remained with me since I was a kid. Thinking about this recently it reminded me of situations of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin, a recurring character in Sufi jokes/stories that convey the same type of wisdom that Inspector Clueso, the Marx Brothers, the Tree Stooges, and others of this ilk, seem to convey.
One of the Nasrudin "jokes" that comes to mind that is similar to the above, and I am going from memory and winging it here, is : The Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin approached the guard at the gate and asked him, "Have you ever seen me before?"
The guard says, "No I haven't."
Nasrudin asks, "Then how do you know it is me?"


EDIT : I just realized that I posted this in Off-topic Occult. This may not be the best place for this. Mods feel free to place it if you think it fits somewhere else.

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Original post: Blue Starthief

I couldn't resist adding:

A certain man lay bedridden with a serious illness, and it appeared that his death was near. In her fear, his wife summoned a hakim, the local town doctor.

The hakim tapped around on the patient and listened for more than half an hour. He checked his pulse, put his head on the man's chest, turned him onto his stomach and then his side and back, raised the man's legs and body, opened his eyes, and looked in his mouth. Finally, with a great deal of conviction the hakim said, "My dear woman, unfortunately I must give you sad news. Your husband has been dead for two days."

At this very moment the ailing man raised his head in shock and whimpered anxiously, "No, my dearest, I am still alive!"

The wife pushed her husband back down onto the pillow with her hand and replied with irritation, "Be quiet! The hakim, a doctor, is an expert. He ought to know!"

-- an old Persian tale, taken from zensufi.com

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Original post: Sud Ram

The Clouseau joke is from The Pink Panther Strikes Again as he checks in to a hotel/pension near the castle where Dreyfus is planning his destruction of the UN building.

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Original post: Nalyd23

Yes, that's it! Thanx Sud Ram.

I see I spelled his name wrong as well - Inspector Clouseau - why didn't you tell me that?:lol:
I knew it didn't look right when I was typing it up.

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Original post: Sentinus

Not now Kato..!!!

~CRASH~

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Original post: Dunhill

It also reminds me of the joke about the man in the balloon who asks a man in a field where he is. 'In a balloon 20 feet off the ground'. The balloonists guesses the man is an engineer since his answer is 100% accurate and completely useless.

Love fun with language like that. It is all about asking the right questions and listening to the right answer. On a recent program the subject of adult circumcision came up. One said 'I couldn't walk for a year after my circumcision. Couldn't talk right either.'

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Original post: Nalyd23

Here is one of my favorite Nasrudin "jokes".

One day the King decided that he would force all his subjects to tell the truth. A gallows was erected in front of the city gates. A herald announced, "Whoever would enter the city must first answer the truth to a question which will be put to him." Nasrudin was first in line. The captain of the guard asked him, "Where are you going? Tell the truth -- the alternative is death by hanging." "I am going," said Nasrudin, "to be hanged on that gallows." "I don't believe you." "Very well, if I have told a lie, then hang me!" "But that would make it the truth!" "Exactly," said Nasrudin, "your truth."

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Original post: Sud Ram

In Portugal there is a region where people have a reputation for having that kind of temperament and also of being lazy. It is called Alentejo (from além Tejo which means beyond the Tagus (river)).

The joke:

Urban yuppy in his Mercedez to a old man sitting on a bench on the side of the road with his back on the wall: "Hey old man, I need to get to Beja (a town) before sunset, do you know where this road is going?"

- no answer -

"Well, do you know if this road goes to Beja?"

Answer from the old man: "Young fellow, this road goes nowhere, we need it here."

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Original post: Nalyd23

Hey Sud Ram, do you think that kind of thinking may be infuenced by Sufi ideas in some way? Maybe from the time of the Moorish Empire? Just curious about your thoughts on that seeing that you live in Portugal.

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Original post: Sud Ram

It's very possible, being that Alentejo is south of Lisbon it would make some sense. And in a way, it is the most spiritual region in the country. People don't really like the church and are more incliend towards Round Table views.

Also it is a very powerful energetic region full of megalithic monuments such as stone circles and menhirs aligned on ley lines that stretch for hundreds of kilometres.


I've already done a whirling dance (sufi inspired) in a cromlech and it was beautiful.

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Original post: Kuroyagi

:lol: this pattern is always funny in all its variations

it reminded me of the scene from "the big lebowski" in which walter smashes a sportscar w his baseball bat cause he thinks it belongs to the teen while it in fact it belongs to the unsuspecting neighbour- the joke is heightened by the fact that the neighbour takes his revenge on the dudes car cause he thinks its walters (also the dudes car is near scrap to begin w anyway)