A Repatriated Australian Joke (not Mamdouh Habib)

Over on Mangan's Miscellany there was a joke about a "xenophobic little Australian boy". He had read it at Gypsy Scholar, who had heard it, in turn, from an Australian friend, Wendy Bracewell.

In the interests of justice and for the honour of God, Queen and Country, this joke has been retaken from foreign hands and brought back to its native soil-

Once there was xenophobic little boy in primary school in Australia who, when he heard his teacher mention foreigners, said:

"Furriners are bastards."

His teacher overheard and admonished him, "Johnny! Now, that's not very nice. This year, I'm going to try to change your mind about foreigners."

And she spent a lot of classtime that year teaching about the many foreigners who had made various sorts of important discoveries, invented various types of useful devices, or accomplished various kinds of great feats.

At the end of the year, she turned to Johnny, who had quietly listened to all of the evidence demonstrating the greatness of foreigners, and said, "Well, Johnny, I guess you have a different opinion of foreigners now."

Johnny grinned and said, "Yep. Furriners are clever bastards."