Here's one for the season.
A rabbi sends his son off to college, with the expectation that his friend
will then go on to yeshiva and become a rabbi himself. But his son writesw
to inform him that he's converted and entered the priesthood. Distraught,
the rabbi goes outside and raises his face to the sky, and asks: Oh God,
I've been a good man all my life, and a good and pious Jew. Why should such
a thing happen to me?" And a mournful voice is heard: "You think you got
tzurus? I had a son..."
Mark
At 08:56 AM 12/19/2003 -0500, Ken Wolman wrote:
>Mark Weiss wrote:
>
> > Yeah, it's like the to say the least discomfort when a non-jewish friend
> > tells a jewish joke, tho among ourselves there's almost nothing else.
>
>Probably any ethnic, racial, or religious joke, or comments made about one's
>sexual orientation, fall under the old rule of the football locker room:
>"What you see here, what you hear here, let it stay here when you leave
>here." It's inside humor; and in most but not all cases, there is an
>unspoken rule that they are told by and to insiders and are not to be shared
>with/told by people who are not members of the group in question. People
>learn and tell them of course, but it's considered a secret and guilty
>pleasure, the love that cannot speak its name:-).
>
>If anyone saw the Coen Brothers' film "Raising Arizona," there is a fairly
>repellent character who seems--not without deliberate construction?--to
>combine sexual tastelessness with ethnic prejudice. He yammers on to
>Nicholas Cage's character that he and his wife can't have children "because
>there's something wrong with my semen" (so who asked?--this is "guy talk"
>taken to the level of a urologist's office). He also is fond of Polish
>jokes. At the end of the film, he tells a Polish joke to the wrong guy: an
>Arizona State Trooper whose nametag reads "Kowalski." Presumably the moving
>violation ticket he gets is a whopper.
>
>Ken
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