At dinner time, Nasreddin finds no meat on the table. He asks his wife:
Nasreddin: What happened to the meat?
Nasreddin's Wife: The cat ate it.
[Nasreddin breezes into the kitchen, puts the cat on the scales, and discovers the cat to be weighing three pounds.]
Nasreddin: If the meat I brought home weighed three pounds, then, where is the cat? And, if this happens to be the cat, then what happened to the meat?
Hasan Bülent Paksoy, Alpamysh: Central Asian Identity Under Russian Rule (1979)
