Generic ethnic jokes From: albert @ harvard.edu (David Albert) Subject: Generic Jokes Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny.reruns Keywords: ethnic, chuckle, originally appeared in fourth quarter, 1988 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 97 19:20:04 EDT (I hope these aren't too offensive. Perhaps they should be encrypted?) (1) A person belonging to an ethnic group whose members are commonly considered to have certain stereotypical mannerisms met another person belonging to a different ethnic group with a different set of imputed stereotypical mannerisms. The first person acted in a manner consistent with the stereotypes associated with his ethnic group, and proceeded to make a remark which might be considered to establish conclusively his membership in that group, whereupon his companion proceeded to make a remark with a double meaning, the first meaning of which could be interpreted to indicate his agreement with his companion, but the other meaning of which serves to corroborate his membership in his particular ethnic group. The first person took offense at his remark, and reacted in a stereotypical way! (2) Q: How many people belonging to a certain ethnic group does it take to perform a particular menial activity? A: A finite positive integer. One to perform the activity, and the rest to behave in a manner stereotypical of their ethnic group! -- From the RHF archives as selected by Brad Templeton, Maddi Hausmann and Jim Griffith. This newsgroup posts former jokes from the newsgroup rec.humor.funny. Visit http://comedy.clari.net/rhf to browse the RHF pages and archives on the web. Rec.humor.funny and RHF.reruns are provided by ClariNet, publisher of the net's largest (1.5 million paying subscriber) E-newspaper. http://www.clari.net