Hello Mouse, here, we have a particular attachment to this joke by Pierre Desproges:
“It was a long, long time before the white man came to disturb the heavy calm of the hot southern plateaus with his bugles of pride and his paraphernalia to clear consciences. A blazing sun fell straight on the White Nile where the animals crushed by heat came to soak their heads to the withers to greedily drink the lukewarm and swampy water. In the distance, a small wild dog lost in the grills of the sun howled, his throat dry, the tiny complaint of burning agonies.
In the middle of the river, totally irrefutable, two enormous hippos left only the masses motionless with their gray-yellow backs cracked in leather cracked with scattered mud and dead algae. Alone, peaceful, in the midst of all this stupefied fauna of torrid torpor, the two unbalanced men were blowing bubbles. But make no mistake. The hippopotamus is not just a pile of bacon. The hippo thinks. The hippo is intelligent.
And precisely, while a big cloud carrying improbable rains came to tarnish for an instant the metallic shine of this hellish sun, one of the two behemoths suddenly emerged from the dark waters his incredible puffy horse puff. His immense bottomless nostrils began to shudder and spit downpours in an obscene and shattering sneeze. Then he began to yawn. It was a ceremonial yawn, slow and majestic, which tore his mouth in two, bordering on bursting, at the same time as the white ivory sparkled with his gaping mouth and his wild bellowing rose to the skies. Almost immediately, the second hippopotamus, in turn, raised its head from the water, frantically snorting. Then the two mastodons looked at each other for a long time, through their long pearly lashes.
So, after having cautiously smelled the air saturated with electric heat from right and left, the first hippopotamus said to the other:
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It’s funny. I can’t get used to the idea that it’s already Thursday. “
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