A Frenchman, an Italian and an Irishman wanted to be the first people to surf across the Pacific.  They had set off one morning in July.  When they had been travelling for a month the weather changed dramatically and the waves became bigger and brok their surfboards in two.

Luckily, the three men managed to swim to an island.  They had been on the island for several weeks when one morning the Italian came back with a bottle he had found while he had been jogging along the beach.

When they opened the bottle, there was a big flash and a genie suddenly appeared.  He said, 'Thank you!  You have released me from my prison and now I am free.  So, I will give each of you one wish each.'

the Frenchman was excited and wished that he could be at home in one of his favourite restaurants in Paris eating steak frites.  Suddenly there was another flash and the Frenchman disapeared.

the Italian wished that he could be back in Italy eating a bowl of his mother's spagetti.  There was another flash and when the smoke cleared, the Irish man noticed that he too had disappeared.

The Irishman started to feel lonely.  He though for a few minutes and finally said to the genie, 'I wish my friends would come back.

There was another flash and...