Very Short Funny Stories: Funny Stories, #1

By Kobina Amissah-Fynn

In this book of really short funny stories, one should expect nothing less than one short, short funny story after another. To say they are unique short funny stories or short funny jokes is of course relative, but none of the 12 stories on offer is more than a couple of pages long. And they all have the same purpose—to bring a smile to the reader's face, if not make him giggle, chuckle or laugh out loud in amusement.

The short funny story jokes of this book, adding up to some 20 pages, can be enjoyed by young and old alike. So enjoy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hope Books
• Release date: Mar 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393304647

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VERY SHORT FUNNY STORIES

Volume I

Kobina Amissah-Fynn

VERY SHORT FUNNY STORIES

Copyright © K. Amissah-Fynn 2019

All Rights Reserved

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First published 2019

This publication 2020

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This is a work of fiction. The characters in the stories are fictional and the resemblance of any of them to any persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. THE FISH STALL SIGN

II. THE SEARCH FOR A POPO

III. FOREIGN ACCENT

IV. EATING AGAIN

V. ARABIC DISCOURSE

VI. POLITICAL SOUND BITE

VII. THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS

VIII. CULTURAL SHOCK

IX. LESSONS OF THE GURU

X. A BLACK MAN’S WOES

XI. CHICKEN BONES

XII. THE HOLY MAN

I. THE FISH STALL SIGN

The market had a number fish stalls, and in front of the most popular of them all was a sign which read: Fresh fish is sold here.

Everything was fine in that stall until a cleric passed by one day and suggested things could be much better if the seller would make a slight change to the sign.

When you write a sign, he pontificated, it is not necessary to follow all the rules of grammar. So in this case, the ‘is’ in the sign is superfluous, as you can see. Just remove it and the sign is perfect.

The fishmonger took the advice of the divinely-inspired cleric to heart and paid a sign writer that same day to alter the sign to read: Fresh fish sold here.

If there was any change to his business or income that day or the days immediately after, the fishmonger did not notice it. Everything continued to seem just fine by his standard. Not a fortnight intervened when another cleric came to his stall and bought some fish. Before leaving he made his own comment about the sign in front of the stall.

"When something is so obvious, my bro, do you really need to put it in a sign? Everyone can see the