"Fred Kasner" <fkasner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote >>
> Luckily, since I usually don't read such stuff critically, I noticed
> initially that it was a coconut tree. So I suspended disbelief and
didn't
> bother to scroll down since I recognized this as one of similar nature
> that starts with an impossibility.
and reminded me of an old Jewish joke (a rarity here, on a Jewish humor
newsgroup).
Zeyde is fed up with his wiseguy grandson, the lawyer. So he asks a
riddle:
"What's green, hangs on the wall in the living room and whistles?'
The grandson can't think of any answer, and gives up.
"A herring," says the old man. "A herring isn't green," the lawyer says.
"There's a law against painting a herring green?" the old man asks.
"But a herring doesn't hang on the wall in the living room," says the
legal
eagle. "In my house, I can hang anything on the wall I want," the
grandfather says.
"Aha," says the Supreme Court Justice wannabe, "A green herring on the
wall
in the living room doesn't whistle."
Grandpa shrugs. "So it doesn't whistle."
Leon
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