Monday, October 15, 2012

A Joke to Start the Week: "My Wife is Poisoning Me"


It's Monday morning and time to start the work week with another joke from the files of Old Jews Telling Jokes.

Today's joke teller is 82-year-old Sylvie Drake. Sylvie was chief theater critic at the Los Angeles Times from 1991 through 1993. She served on the 1994 Pulitzer Prize Drama Jury, was a personal interpreter for playwright Eugene Ionesco in the 1980s, served as president of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle and on the Executive Committee of the American Theatre Critics Association.

We expect some groans after she tells the joke. Yes, we know you've heard it before, and yes, we know you know how to tell it better. But isn't that the case with all old Jewish jokes? Enjoy!

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4 comments:

  1. Read from an actual Holy Rabbi, telling a joke: "asked how this elderly couple were able to stay married for 70 years, the wife replied that they honneymooned in Bermuda. Asked what that had to do with anything, she quiped " Yeah, and next week I'm going back to pick him up."

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  2. It has been my good fortune to know this wonderful woman for many, MANY years.

    She is a rare jewel...and...now I know that she can do A-N-Y thing to which she sits her mind.

    Bravo, dear Sylvie.

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