In article <TzoZj.7375$j41.2292@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Leon <wordswordsNOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>
>"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
>
>
So, why is it always a herring.
And always green?
--
Mike Lindsay
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