Xref: utzoo alt.flame:3241 news.misc:2145 soc.culture.jewish:8423 rec.humor.d:1221 Path: utzoo!hoptoad!pacbell!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu!nmg From: nmg@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Nancy M Gould) Newsgroups: alt.flame,news.misc,soc.culture.jewish,rec.humor.d Subject: Re: The Good, the Bad, and the Stupid Message-ID: <1110@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> Date: 29 Nov 88 14:31:09 GMT References:<2229@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <390@thor.wright.EDU> Reply-To: nmg@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Nancy M Gould) Organization: Mathematical Sciences Computer Lab, Columbus, OH Lines: 24 In article <390@thor.wright.EDU> rasar@wright.EDU (Ravin Asar) writes: >Well, I don't know about the Italians, but you don't find anyone >objecting to Russian jokes because : > > a) They're true > b) Humor is a capital crime in Russia, hence "jokes" are not > defined in their system > c) Crying is a heinous crime in Russia (second only to humor) > d) There aren't too many Russians on the net I have another reason. Most Russian Americans are in fact Jews. They probably don't have time to object to Russian jokes because they are too busy fighting the Jewish ones. :-) -- "When the writer becomes the center of his attention, he becomes a nudnik. And a nudnik who believes he's profound is even worse than just a plain nudnik." --Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904- ) Nancy M. Gould