Gabrovo humour

Select sayings

• cut the tails off their cats so they can close the door faster when they let the cat out, in order to save heat.
• fit taps to eggs so as to tap only as much as needed for a soup and save the rest.
• turn their clocks off before they go to sleep to prevent wear and tear.
• put green spectacles on their donkeys so that the donkeys will mistake shavings for hay and eat it.
• sweat both in the smithy and when bargaining in the market place.
• heat their knives so that guests invited for tea cannot help themselves to butter.
• drop cats down chimneys instead of spending money on chimney sweeps.
• are so aggressive in business that when something new has only just hit the headlines somewhere, it has already been done in Gabrovo.
• bury dead body of their relatives perpendicular so that they can save some land which would take if they lie the dead body to bury

  Select jokes

• A citizen of Gabrovo throws a party, but too many people show up. So he goes to his neighbour for help.
• Why don't people from Gabrovo buy refrigerators? Because they can't be sure the light goes off when the door's closed.
• Why do people dance in socks during weddings in Gabrovo? Because they listen to the music from the neighbouring town.
• Why do people from Gabrovo switch the lamp on and off every now and then when they're reading a book? To save energy while turning pages.