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Monday, September 16, 2013
A Joke to Start the Week - "What Do You Want to Be?"
It's Monday morning -- time for another Joke to Start the Week, and another trip back to Kutsher's Resort in New York's Catskill mountains.
During our last set of performances we had the pleasure of meeting some very interesting and funny guests with whom we shared good food, stories and jokes in the dining room.
Friday morning we found a quiet corner in the spacious lobby and recorded a few of the guests telling some of their favorite jokes, which we have been posting over the past few Mondays.
Today's joke teller is Yaffa Lown, a retired Hebrew teacher.
Here's the setup for today's joke: This story happened in Russia, many years ago, when the Communist Party was really strong. So the head of the Communist Party walks into the classroom, and then...
Enjoy!
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Could hardly understand the lady!
ReplyDeleteShe has an Israeli accent. That's why we added the subtitles.
DeleteWhat subtitles? No captions or subtitles appeared on my screen (altho I could understand her, but maybe that's because I live in Israel).
DeleteShe speaks very clearly. Check your hearing or your knowledge of English.
Deletedelightful...Yaffa is a wonderful woman who I had the pleasure to get to know.
ReplyDeleteBernette Rudolph