Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site lcuxc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!lcuxc!kenw From: kenw@lcuxc.UUCP (K Wolman) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: YAJJ (Yet Another Jewish Joke): A Variant Reading Message-ID: <239@lcuxc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 08:02:25 EST Article-I.D.: lcuxc.239 Posted: Wed Feb 13 08:02:25 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 02:39:27 EST References: <760011@acf4.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ Lines: 38 I heard the same joke a slightly different way (of course I think MY way's better!): A young Jewish boy attends the neighborhood public school where he rapidly becomes a legendary behavior problem: he starts fights, torments girls, garbage-mouths his teachers, and does terribly in his school work. The Principal finally calls both the boy and his father in and expels the kid. The father then enrolls the child in a very strict yeshiva. The same problems continue, only they are aggravated. The kid is disrespectful to the rabbi-teachers; his only contact with any Jewishly-oriented language is filthy Yiddish oaths; his schoolwork is horrid; and he gets into fights. The Rosh Yeshiva (Principal) throws the kid out of the school. The father gives up and enrolls the kid in a Roman Catholic parochial school. Suddenly, the kid is respectful to his teachers; a peacemaker rather than troublemaker; and his schoolwork rapidly improves until he is one of the class stars. His father is totally mystified. "I don't believe this!" he says. "In public school, you were totally impossible, so they threw you out. In YESHIVA, you were even worse and they threw you out! NOW I send you to a ROMAN CATHOLIC school (your grandfather would turn over in his grave!), and you do WELL?! How do you explain this???" "Well, dad," says the kid, "the first day, when I walked into class and saw that man hanging from a cross, I knew those guys meant business!" -- Ken Wolman Bell Communications Research @ Livingston, NJ lcuxc!kenw (201) 740-4565 ". . . Toto, I don't think we're in the Bronx anymore. . . ."