Posted on 06/22/2004 9:26:43 AM PDT by USMCVIETVET
Edited on 06/22/2004 10:10:43 AM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]
I know many Poles, Irish, Jews, and Blacks that tell jokes on themselves too. They tell the joke BEFORE you tell the joke. It's a defense mechanism.
The rabbi was playing schlemeil.
I fit three of those categories. I don't tell those sorts of jokes as a defense mechanism, but because they are funny!
I would be saddened to know that the rabbi in fact was playing schlemeil. I was very respectful in my discussion of our religious faiths and explained that my church arguably is the most Judaistic and pro-Jewish denomination in Christendom....
Inside the belly of the beastie it is.
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