Subject: Re: Auditory subscription fun movement ... was Re: FUN From: Matt Flax <flatmax@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:30:01 +1100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Pierre's joke was funny because he was laughing at himself ... the joke itself talks fondly of the way Italians and Jewish people need their hands to talk ! Appologies to those Italians and Jews who still feel offended ... Actually Pierre's response was to a joke I was playing on Pierre ... I never allowed my original response to go to the list ... Pierre pulled my bluff and posted himself !!! Have we all had our fun now ? Matt On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 08:44 +0200, Pierre Divenyi wrote: > PS: My favorite family members are Jewish. > PPS: This very old joke is probably a little more funny than those on > amputated animal legs. > > -Pierre > > PPPS: I agree that this discussion should not be part of the auditory list. > > > On 10/13/09 4:33 AM, "Matt Flax" <flatmax@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Pierre, > > > > All of a sudden, its not fun any more ... > > > > Are you an Italian Jew ? > > > > Am I missing a subtle connection here which doesn't make your joke > > racist and antisemitic ? > > > > Is this how you want to represent yourself in a global community ? > > > > Matt > > > > On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 03:40 +0200, Pierre Divenyi wrote: >> I heard it as an ethnic joke: cut off the hands of an Italian or a >> Jew and he/she can’t talk any more. >> >> Shameonme, >> >> -Pierre >> >> >>>On 10/13/09 1:05 AM, "Helen Simon" <helen@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>It was the frog whose legs were cut off. When they told him then to >>>jump, he did not move. The scientific >>>conclusion was that if you cut off the legs of a frog, it looses >>>its hearing.