Comments on: Dave Barry looks back at the year 2013…

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 21:05:50 +0000

Good Ole Charlie: The joke I know is a version of #940 here. Only mine was set on a plane. And the nosy old lady asks the question (and the man denies it) many many more times before the punchline (of which the last word is "it" in my version, rather than "Jewish." I think "it" works better.)

By: Good Ole Charlie

Good Ole Charlie — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 20:47:56 +0000

One joke I read in a book on the Third Reich…

Person #1: “You look Jewish to me”…

Person #2: “I’m not Jewish; I just look intelligent”.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 20:03:19 +0000

So you know someone is a Jew because of what he looks like…?

How… interesting.

I just took that as a normal lead up to a potential future joke. Nothing came out of it, though, because it wasn’t responded to. No tsukomi.

If someone’s a Leftist infiltrator or agent here, usually I should be the one that first detects them. Or blows up. Whichever comes first.

By: Matt_SE

Matt_SE — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 19:20:08 +0000

“A shocked and outraged and, of course, surprised President Obama…”

Heh.

By: notherbob2

notherbob2 — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 19:02:26 +0000

Sorry Igotbupkis. I get it now. You were mischaracterizing for the purpose of humor.

Does this mean that one can tell a libertarian by the mis-placed shots he takes at those he believes are liberal trolls?

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 18:50:18 +0000

notherbob2:

I think IGotBupkis was making a joke. He’s a regular commenter here.

By: notherbob2

notherbob2 — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 18:28:33 +0000

And how do we know that Igotbupkis is a liberal troll (and not just someone noticing that neoneocon took a PC risk by making her comment)?

Neonecon’s statement was based on the total behavior of people who were observed in a family situation. Bupkis mischaracterized neoneocon’s statement in order to set up the bigot-bait.

Typical liberal behavior.

Now Bupkis can reply to me: “So you know someone is a liberal because of what he lies about?

By: Michael Adams

Michael Adams — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 18:17:57 +0000

It’s a sort of background joke in Texas that we definitely do not know what a Jew looks like. We have a goodly number of Lebanese and Syrian immigrants, more than the rest of the South, which has no shortage. So, a faintly Mediterranean look is fairly ubiquitous. OTOH, the “Woody Allen” look is much like other Eastern European physiognomy, with which we are also blessed in abundance.

Evangelicals are the largest group in Texas, and we do get rather testy about antisemitism. As further evidence, if any were needed, that I am not very nice, when I have heard some nasty antijewish remark from a recent arrival, of the Northern persuasion, I bait them, as in “How do you know he is Jewish?” “Well, he looks Jewish.” “Oh, how can you tell?” S/he will cite several characteristics, until they get to one or two that is also prominent in the speaker. So then I ask whether the speaker is Jewish. It just makes them crazy, and I should not do it, I guess, and I will stop, really soon, really, really soon. Maybe. Heh!

By: rickl

rickl — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 03:49:52 +0000

So basically, Barry’s column was just a straightforward roundup of 2013.

By: Igotbupkis, "Not At Home For The Holidays"

Igotbupkis, "Not At Home For The Holidays" — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 03:07:01 +0000

So you know someone is a Jew because of what he looks like...? How... interesting.