"Why are you so down in the mouth,
Mulla?" asked someone in the tavern.
"Aw," said Mulla Nasrudin,
"I just heard a guy call another fellow a liar. And that fellow said that
if he didn't apologize, he would whip
him."
"Well, why should that make you so
sad?" asked the first.
"BECAUSE," said Nasrudin,
"THE GUY APOLOGIZED."