Gordon Brown in Cumbria
Emma Hales
The situation:- Gordon Brown is observing the floods in Cumbria UK, a
sudden
torrent sweeps away the ground from under him. He grabs a branch of a
tree
but it is too starting to be swept away.
Nearby is a news photographer with a safety line.
The problem for the photographer:-
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Does he use the colour or black and white camera?
Anyway a bit later...
Gordon Brown proudly went into a pub in Cumbria with a pig on a lead
that he had
just help to be saved.
"Whoever brought that ugly bastard in here better take it out, he'll
shit on all
of us anytime!" shouts the landlord.
"I did, I'm the Prime Minister and I've just helped to save it!"
Boasts the P.M..
To which the landlord replies, "I wasn't talking to you, I was talking
to the pig!"
Dermot Goldstein
Is jewish, this joke?
Leon
"Dermot Goldstein" <dgold...@charter.net> wrote >
> Is jewish, this joke?
You, my friend, have brought up a subject we Jews have been debating for
years, if not centuries.
Is a painting, a book, a piece of sculpture or even a joke, "Jewish"? At the
world-acclaimed Jewish Museum in New York, works by Jews not necessarily
about Jewish subjects are "Jewish". Art about Jewish subjects by non-Jews is
"Jewish". Stories or jokes about Jews or Jewish subjects, even if written or
told by non-Jews are also "Jewish". The Five Books of Moses aka the
Pentateuch aka the Torah are definitely Jewish. The New Testament, although
featuring the late JC, a Jew, is definitely not Jewish.
For a less serious discussion, look up Lenny Bruce, who said, among other
things on the subject:
"If you�re from New York and you�re Catholic, you�re still Jewish. If you�re
from Butte Montana and you�re Jewish, you�re still goyish. The Air Force is
Jewish, the Marine Corps dangerous goyish. Rye bread is Jewish, instant
potatoes, scary goyish. Eddie Cantor is goyish, George Jessel is
goyish-Coleman Hawkins is Jewish.�
Leon
Dermot Goldstein
wrote:
>
>"Dermot Goldstein" <dgold...@charter.net> wrote >
>> Is jewish, this joke?
>
>You, my friend, have brought up a subject we Jews have been debating for
>years, if not centuries.
>
>Is a painting, a book, a piece of sculpture or even a joke, "Jewish"? At the
>world-acclaimed Jewish Museum in New York, works by Jews not necessarily
>about Jewish subjects are "Jewish". Art about Jewish subjects by non-Jews is
>"Jewish". Stories or jokes about Jews or Jewish subjects, even if written or
>told by non-Jews are also "Jewish". The Five Books of Moses aka the
>Pentateuch aka the Torah are definitely Jewish. The New Testament, although
>featuring the late JC, a Jew, is definitely not Jewish.
Was there anything even remotely jewish about the Gordon Brown joke?
>For a less serious discussion, look up Lenny Bruce, who said, among other
>things on the subject:
>
>"If you�re from New York and you�re Catholic, you�re still Jewish. If you�re
>from Butte Montana and you�re Jewish, you�re still goyish. The Air Force is
>Jewish, the Marine Corps dangerous goyish. Rye bread is Jewish, instant
>potatoes, scary goyish. Eddie Cantor is goyish, George Jessel is
>goyish-Coleman Hawkins is Jewish.�
That's a jewish joke, right?
Juan M
GB George Bush?
Nu?
Leon
"Dermot Goldstein" <dgold...@charter.net> wrote in message
news:4b0da98f...@news.eternal-september.org...
By Lennie Bruce, Jewish. Subject: Who is Jewish, ergo Jewish.
You're catching on nicely.
Leon
Morten
>
> "Dermot Goldstein" <dgold...@charter.net> wrote in message
> news:4b0da98f...@news.eternal-september.org...
>>
>> That's a jewish joke, right?
>
> By Lennie Bruce, Jewish. Subject: Who is Jewish, ergo Jewish.
>
> You're catching on nicely.
>
> Leon
OK, now I'm confused. Oh ancient and wise one, please
enlighten this humble supplicant: does categorizing something as
NJFTJAOCBJJ (to wit, "Not Jewish, funny to Jews -- and others as well,
could be a Jewish joke") make it Jewish or not?
Regards,
Morten
Leon
"Morten" <cla...@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:4b0e8337$0$36573$edfa...@dtext01.news.tele.dk...
O Grasshopper, you have opened the jewel (or is it Jew-el) box of curiosity.
For those with no, or deeply impaired, sense of humor, classifying a joke
(or giving us a "nudge, nudge") is intended to let us know the writer thinks
it is funny. Do not, o young one, mistake such posts as humor, Jewish or
even worthy of passing on to others, but give careful attention to Lenny
Bruce, Jerry Seinfeld and the archives of Myron Cohen.
Go out into the world, young monk, and spread the word of Joe Miller.
Leon
Juan M
Harry Farkas
"Juan M" <juanmSP...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:-KWdnWRsQ_R9I5PW...@centurytel.net...
>I thought Gordon Braun was MOT.
Wikipedia is your friend: His father was John Ebenezer Brown (1914�1998), a
minister of the Church of Scotland
--
Harry Farkas
***************
Juan M
"Harry Farkas" <hfa...@wowway.com> wrote in message
news:_lBPm.25066$kY2....@newsfe01.iad...
>
> "Juan M" <juanmSP...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:-KWdnWRsQ_R9I5PW...@centurytel.net...
>>I thought Gordon Braun was MOT.
>
> --
> Harry Farkas
> ***************
;<)
Lofty Goat
> ... but give careful attention to Lenny Bruce, Jerry Seinfeld and the
> archives of Myron Cohen....
You mean the guy whose hypochondriac relatives have his-and-hers walk-in
medicine cabinets and celebrate Chronikuh every winter? That Jerry
Seinfeld?
Didn't he quit doing standup? Haven't seen him in years.
A great loss, that.