The Buddhist Priest and the Irish Man

There was a competition to find out who the smartest man in the world was. In this competition, there was only one rule, you can’t talk. So it all comes down to a Buddhist priest and an Irish man.

So the priest starts out by holding up one finger. The Irish man holds up two fingers. The Buddhist priest holds up three fingers and the Irish man holds up a fist. The priest holds up a small circle with one hand. The Irish man holds up a big circle with his hands over his head. The priest falls over backwards in his chair and the Irish man wins.

So two months later, in India, one of the priest’s followers asks how he lost. The priest said, “I held up unity and he held up duality. So I held up holy trinity (even though I’m Buddhist). He held up earth and so I thought what could be better than that. I held up universe and he held up infinity.”

Back in a pub in Ireland, the Irish man had a different interpretation: “He said, ‘I kick your ass one time’ and I said ‘I kick your ass two times’. So he said, ‘I kick your ass three times’ and I said, ‘Well I’ll shove this up your ass’. So he said, ‘well my asshole is only this big’ and I said, ‘Well I’ll make it this big!’”

This joke is filed under Irish.