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From: kenw@lcuxc.UUCP (K Wolman)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: YAJJ (Yet Another Jewish Joke): A Variant Reading
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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 08:02:25 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 13 08:02:25 1985
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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. . . ."