From: greycat@tribeca.ios.com (Greycat Sharpclaw) Newsgroups: alt.pub.coffeehouse.amethyst Subject: Re: I need some jokes!!! Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 05:59:31 GMT "Dennis L. Liao" wrote: >Please send me some good jokes. :) >thanks! >-dennis David stape up and offers: "OK... here goes my favorite ethnic joke: "I get away with it because I'm decended from all 4 ethnic groups mentioned! (And at least 1 more besides, and I think but have not confirmed others):" "Formal Disclamer: ETHNIC KOKE ALERT! Those bothered by same are hereby warned to cover their ears." "Why will none of the major British nationalities ever rule the world?" "Answer: Divine providence." "See, first God created the Irish. And he said to himself 'these people are fun. But I don't want them to ever rule the world.' So to handicap them, he gave them whisky." "Then God created the Scots. And he said to himself, 'these people are almost as much fun as the Irish. But I don't want them ruling the world, either.' So to handicap them, he gave them kilts and bagpipes." "Then God created the Welsh. He took one look at them, and said, "No way!' So to handicap them, he gave them the Welsh language." "Finally God created the English. For the smallest possible fraction of a second he was worried. He knew that these people would come closer to ruling the world than any of the others. So he had to give them the biggest handicap" "So he gave them the Irish, Scots, and Welsh." --------------- David, an American whose most recent foreign born ancestor was William Roche, born in County Cork, Ireland. And who is decended from a long line of Cork Roches. (I do have a line of ancestry whose been in this country so long that they had to walk to get here)