That explains a lot: they’re mentally ill. Something we “numerates” have long suspected.
(Sorry for the pay-wall, it wasn’t there when I first wrote this post. There’s what seems to be a complete copy of it here, though I don’t know for how long.)
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Why did Pharoah not let the Israelites go, in spite of what was happening to him?
He was living in De Nile.
That’s bad, but I’ve got worse: where does a small king keep his armies?
In his sleevies, of course. 😉
That pun is a royal pain! I didn’t know you were equipped with worse weapons of a pundit than I!
Admittedly, that’s one of my worst… but I do have a few others of similar megatonnage in case it isn’t enough. 😉
OK, that reminds me. How did Sadaam Hussein intend to make the Pope be out of business? Weapons of mass destruction.
Our local Catholic church, alarmed at the recent drop in attendance, has come up with a new plan. Noting that more people take the bus than come to church, they’re sending priests out to hold services on the local buses each Sunday. They’re calling it Mass Transit.
I don’t think that will work Brother, it’s out of the frying pan and into the Friar.
A Rabbi from Spain, just before Passover, telephones a Rabbi from Israel in alarm over a shortage of chrain (horseradish) there. “Not to worry,” the Rabbi from Israel reassures him, “I’ll send you some.”
The Rabbi from Spain does not receive it, and telephones the Rabbi in Israel, who says “I’m sorry, but we have a major airline strike here. Unfortunately, the chrain for Spain is mainly on the plane.”
I used to sing, ah-lah, “My Fair Lady”, “the Chrain in Spain falls mainly on the Plain!” Saying it was from “my fair Jewish girl”. (The joke is that Hungarians/Galicianers say chr”eye”n, while Litvaks, and the “official” Yiddish pronunciation, is “chrain”, so I’d pretend there was this “fair lady” who needed to get rid of her Galicianer accent to be prepared for Yiddish high society. 😉 )
This only makes sense if you understand inter-ethnic Jewish politics. 😉 Everyone used to look down a bit on the Galicianers (not because they were poor, but because they were wealthy – the question was why would they come to America unless they wanted to escape religion since they didn’t need to for the money), kind of silly for Jews to look down on Jews considering how often they got looked down on, but there it is.
Incidentally, I have a Galicianer ancestor, and she was the most religious American ancestor I had as a first-generation immigrant, she used to go all the way across town to get a certain kind of kosher milk and dairy products, only found in one market in the US at the time in the Lower East Side, so much for the stereotype.
I also used to joke, after singing this and after the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks with similar attacks in Spain, that the reason the terrorists attacked Spain was because they supplied the Jews with Chrain!
Why did Pharoah not let the Israelites go, in spite of what was happening to him?
He was living in De Nile.
That’s bad, but I’ve got worse: where does a small king keep his armies?
In his sleevies, of course. 😉
That pun is a royal pain! I didn’t know you were equipped with worse weapons of a pundit than I!
Admittedly, that’s one of my worst… but I do have a few others of similar megatonnage in case it isn’t enough. 😉
OK, that reminds me. How did Sadaam Hussein intend to make the Pope be out of business? Weapons of mass destruction.
Our local Catholic church, alarmed at the recent drop in attendance, has come up with a new plan. Noting that more people take the bus than come to church, they’re sending priests out to hold services on the local buses each Sunday. They’re calling it Mass Transit.
I don’t think that will work Brother, it’s out of the frying pan and into the Friar.
A Rabbi from Spain, just before Passover, telephones a Rabbi from Israel in alarm over a shortage of chrain (horseradish) there. “Not to worry,” the Rabbi from Israel reassures him, “I’ll send you some.”
The Rabbi from Spain does not receive it, and telephones the Rabbi in Israel, who says “I’m sorry, but we have a major airline strike here. Unfortunately, the chrain for Spain is mainly on the plane.”
I used to sing, ah-lah, “My Fair Lady”, “the Chrain in Spain falls mainly on the Plain!” Saying it was from “my fair Jewish girl”. (The joke is that Hungarians/Galicianers say chr”eye”n, while Litvaks, and the “official” Yiddish pronunciation, is “chrain”, so I’d pretend there was this “fair lady” who needed to get rid of her Galicianer accent to be prepared for Yiddish high society. 😉 )
This only makes sense if you understand inter-ethnic Jewish politics. 😉 Everyone used to look down a bit on the Galicianers (not because they were poor, but because they were wealthy – the question was why would they come to America unless they wanted to escape religion since they didn’t need to for the money), kind of silly for Jews to look down on Jews considering how often they got looked down on, but there it is.
Incidentally, I have a Galicianer ancestor, and she was the most religious American ancestor I had as a first-generation immigrant, she used to go all the way across town to get a certain kind of kosher milk and dairy products, only found in one market in the US at the time in the Lower East Side, so much for the stereotype.
I also used to joke, after singing this and after the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks with similar attacks in Spain, that the reason the terrorists attacked Spain was because they supplied the Jews with Chrain!
Kind of puts the kybosh on my joke. 🙂
Anytime. 😉