I'm German, so I hope you all understand this joke when I try to tell it in English ^^
What do you need to catch a crocodile?
- a flight ticket to Africa
- two folding chairs
- yesterday's newspaper
- binoculars
- tweezers
- a matchbox
- an apple
You fly to Africa and visit the Nile. Set up your folding chairs and begin to read yesterday's newpaper. Soon you will fall asleep, because the newspaper bores you so much (it's yesterday's newspaper and you already read it yesterday).
While you are asleep a hungry crocodile comes to you to eat you. But before he eats you, he sees that newspaper and sits in the empty folding chair next to you to read it.
Soon the crocodile falls asleep (because it's yesterday's newspaper and of course the crocodile has read it yesterday already).
Because you fell asleep earlier than the crocodile, you wake up earlier than the crocodile (that's pure logic!).
Now all you have to do is take out your binoculars and look through them the other way round, so that the crocodile looks smaller than it actually is. It's now so small that you can take it with your tweezers into the matchbox.
But oh oh... mother crocodile has seen you doing so and is veeeery angry about that.
You have to run as fast as you can, but she is damn fast.
Your last chance to survive is in your pocket. The apple! Throw it away and climb onto the apple tree (because we all know: the apple never falls far from the tree).
There you go... you're safe and you got your crocodile ;)
edit (since it's the 16th now): HAPPY BIRTHDAY!