Mike Lindsay wrote:
> 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?
Funny, when I first heard this one in 1943 it was red herring. But then
again the person who told it to me was a socialist dupe.
FK
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