nourishing obscurity

Last month, apparently, a world-wide survey was conducted by the UN.

The only question asked was:  “Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?”

The survey was a huge failure because of the following:

#  In Eastern Europe they didn’t know what “honest” meant.
#  In Western Europe they didn’t know what “shortage” meant.
#  In Africa they didn’t know what “food” meant.
#  In China they didn’t know what “opinion” meant.
#  In the Middle East they didn’t know what “solution” meant.
#  In South America they didn’t know what “please” meant.
#  In the US they didn’t know what “the rest of the world” meant.

And finally … in Australia, they hung up because they couldn’t understand the Indian accent.

[Courtesy IPJ]

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