An office manager, Arthur an Englishman at XYX was given the task of hiring an individual to fill a job opening. After sorting through a stack of resumes he found four people who were equally qualified a Canadian, a Russian, an Australian and a Filipino.

He decided to call the four in and ask them only one question. Their answer would determine who of them would get the job. The day came and as the four sat around the conference room table the interviewer asked, "What is the fastest thing you know?" Matthew, the Canadian, replied, "A THOUGHT. It just pops into your head. There's no warning that it's on the way; it's just there. A thought is the fastest thing I know of."

"That's very good!" replied Arthur.

"And now you sir?" he asked Ivan, the Russian.

"Hmm... let me see. A blink! It comes and goes and you don't know that it ever happened. A BLINK is the fastest thing I know."

"Excellent!" said the interviewer. "The blink of an eye, that's a very popular cliché for speed."

He then turned to Jack, the Australian who was contemplating his reply. "Well, out at my dad's ranch, you step out of the house and on the wall there's a light switch. When you flip that switch, way out across the pasture the light in the barn comes on. Yep, TURNING ON A LIGHT is the fastest thing I can think of."

Arthur was very impressed with the third answer and thought he had found his man. "It's hard to beat the speed of light" he said.

Turning to Juan, the Filipino, the fourth and final man, the interviewer posed the same question. Juan replied, "Apter herring da 3 preybyus ansers sir, et's obyus to me dat the fastest thing is Diarrhea. (After hearing the 3 previous answers sir, it's obvious to me that the fastest thing is Diarrhea)"

"WHAT!?" said Arthur, stunned by the response. The others were already giggling in their seats...

"Oh, I can expleyn(explain) sir." said Juan. " You see, sir, da adder day my tummy was peeling bad and so I run so fast to the CR, but before I could THINK, BLINK, or TURN ON THE LIGHT, naku po sir, I had alreydi that in my pants!"

Juan got the job.