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Karamba
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 10 Jan 2007 : 18:22:15
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After serious examination of politics, the economy, and the social system of Gambia, the one truth that keeps emerging is DOMINATION.
At the level of society, the larger number dominates the smaller number. Larger social groupings (not tribes) play a dominant hand over the smaller numbers. It can be clubs or other formations. In the economic arena, those with larger possession of money and material play dominance over the rest. That is how politics is also played in Gambia. That is why ruling partie often fight for numbers as way of playing that DOMINANCE. In the game of dominance, those who play together share the same interest. This is not the same as tribal or ethnic interest. The APRC which is not a proper political party is composed of people of such interest different from tribal or ethnic interest. They have greater personal survival motives more than anything. If it was on ethnic interest, Yankuba (Bambara/Mandinka), Lamin Kaba Bajo(Mandinka) Yahya Jammeh (Jola) Edward Singhatey (Half Mandinka) and other Wollof, Fula, Serrer and Manjago members of the group could not stick together. Will Gambians recognise this and decide to come together in total defiance of the rule of DOMINATION? If you think the mentality of DOMINATION is what is negatively affecting and preventing decent politics in Gambia, how do you think all can come together as UNITED GAMBIA AGAINST DOMINATION?
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Cornelius
Sweden
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Posted - 11 Jan 2007 : 15:34:09
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Karamba,
You have excused my typographical errors in advance. Thank you.
(Yesterday I posted some innocuous jokes that have kept me in good humour as I recover from the flu, Jewish Humour by Abraham Hochwald – not about hell - and they were REMOVED: I also DEMAND A REASON for this type of tyranny that even lacks a sense of humour. They were not Danish-made Muhammadan Cartoons.
I am reposting those jokes at the bottom of this my reply to your posting and ask whether in your opinion they should have been REMOVED.
If they are removed this time around, I swear to my mother who gave birth to me, and I was circumcised at eight days of age, I WILL leave Bantaba to you and the admin for ever - and that will not be the end of the matter. I am nobody’s boy-boy.
And yes, DENMARK was occupied by the Germans. And yes, Denmark is also a safe haven for prostitution and the sex trade in Africans. This too is well documented.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Denmark
http://www.auschwitz.dk/docu/Default.htm
http://www.auschwitz.dk/Denmark.htm
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/danish_resistance.htm
The way you sound, I wish that you were leader of the Gambia and that you had good men around you, not those that have “a lean and hungry look”. I myself would like to work with you for adult education.
Domination:
“Control or power over another or others.
The exercise of such control or power.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domination
Also refers to “hierarchy” and “Subordination” “Mastery” “Supremacy”
There is also a word “ABASEMENT” which is well defined by the Devil’s Dictionary”:
http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/devils/a.html
As one who comes from a tiny minority (Creole) in his own country of birth ( Sierra Leone) there is the tendency that I have more than ordinary sympathy for minorities and especially for oppressed minorities. But please excuse ignorance asking here, because I am familiar with the statistical ratio of the ethnic composition of the Gambia in which the Mandinka are a clear majority – which would imply that with adroit political alliances the Mandinka or a front-man of the Mandinka would always be in power.
With one man one vote, the mathematical formula for elective democracy has mostly been “the majority carries the day/vote” and so in South Africa or what was once Ian Smith’s Rhodesia we demonstrated and worked for the overthrow of such systems and for MAJORITY RULE in what is now Zimbabwe where land reform is still lagging behind and in South Africa where in 1994, 87% of the land was in old Whitey’s hands, and only an additional 3% of the 30% land that the ANC-led government had promised to transfer to the landless South African people, these past ten years – despite ANC DOMINATION –you cannot call it anything else - yet only 3% has so far been transferred - according to Professor Barney Pityana of University of South Africa. This Hardtalk was illuminating in many areas. Karamba! Your attention please:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/6247975.stm
http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&rlz=1T4GGLJ_enSE205SE205&q=Barney+Pityana&btnG=S%C3%B6k&meta=
Given the imbalance (not even near equilibrium) between North and South and North and part of the West against the East, to take my Nigeria as an example where the industrious Igbo have been mostly marginalised – the finance minister WAS REPLACED), crudely speaking, it’s all set for the North + the Islamised Yoruba West in alliance to perpetuate rule in Nigeria. Also, given the fact that the Shia outnumber the Sunni in Iran and Iraq, by submitting to that formula of majority rule, there is no question about who is and will be in charge in those two countries. It is of course the Shia.
The US administartion is conscious of this:
http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=3713#comments
There are countless other examples.
Israel’s demographic nightmare is about Arabs overpopulating that country even when established within secure borders since it is only the Arabs and the Orthodox Jews in Israel who are most responsive to God’s edict: “be fruitful and multiple” and the unwilling and the rebels complain that they cannot all be like Jack Rabbits…..
Here we have a brave Jola who is boi-boi to no one (of course in my opinion one of the problems of the Gambia – from this distance, is that there are too many boy-boys.)
However, Karamba what I am asking you here is clarity: Usually when the word DOMINATION is used or applied, it would imply a minority imposing its dominance, in that case unjustly.
But here you make it clear that it is a conglomeration of (self-seeking) interests (as in any society – including the central committees of Communist parties) that dominate.
What you describe is an essential feature of the classical class society and I thought that you were giving a theoretical example of the United States Of America, or the New Russia (leaving aside all the capital in the hands of the richest man in the Gambia – who also got the Lansana Conte prize for Agriculture, and the peasants, and the bureaucrats among whom there are possibly one or two plutocrats/KLEPTOCRATS)
Here is your classical statement, your words:
“In the economic arena, those with larger possession of money and material play dominance over the rest. That is how politics is also played in Gambia.”
Are you about to embraces Leon Trotsky?
http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&rlz=1T4GGLJ_enSE205SE205&q=Leon+Trotsky&btnG=S%C3%B6k&meta=
“In the game of dominance” you say, “those who play together share the same interest.”
Yes, this is natural. They are in the same football team and have the same goal: to score more goals and win. Is it illegal? You mean where is their social conscience? I should say that it is with their extended family. As you say “They have greater personal survival motives more than anything.”
Perhaps you are looking for a Robin Hood as president. The type that some in Sweden would like to have as Finance and taxation minister.
Here’s a free read and it was not for nothing that every schoolboy had this at his fingertips (I read the entire book aloud to my son when he was ten years old, so many discussion evenings:
http://www.george-orwell.org/Animal_Farm/index.html
Your most important question, your parthian shot about people- empowerment remains unanswered, but I do have a lot of good ideas in that area:
“How do you think all can come together as UNITED GAMBIA AGAINST DOMINATION?
My dearly departed friend and mentor Dr Mikhail Tunkel (of Lithuanian parents born and bred in Harbin, China - emigrated to Israel in 1950 had a portrait of Paul Robeson he himself had drawn - gracing his dining room. Showing it to me the first time (glowing with artistic pride - he also played Chinese piano and loved CHOPIN -we never got to talking about Pushkin )but he would often tell me that only a black was most capable of understanding the Jew, perhaps because historically we have both suffered so much discrimination and racism for hundreds of years, and if you substitute black man for Jew in most racist or even joke situations, what he says is mostly true - he was also talking about emotions (and the Blues) and here's a good quotation:
“NEVER APOLOGISE FOR SHOWING FEELING; WHEN YOU DO SO, YOU APOLOGISE FOR THE TRUTH” (Benjamin Disraeli said that)
The jokes were:
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
“It’s recorded that "Sir Moses Montefiore, a famous English Jewish
Philanthropist, was sitting next to an anti-Semitic aristocrat at a banquet.
“I have just returned from a trip to Japan,” said the anti-Semite, “and to my
surprise, I discovered that they have neither Jews nor pigs in Japan.”
“Is that so?” responded Montefiore. “In that case the two of us should
settle in Japan, so that they have at least one member of each species.”
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Berlin, 1935. An Aryan boarded a tram and saw that the only free seat was next to a Jew, but on this seat there lay a huge parcel.
“REMOVE THE PARCEL!” demanded the Aryan.
Why?
REMOVE THE PARCEL RIGHT NOW, OR ELSE I’LL CALL THE CONDUCTOR!”
“Call whoever you like!”
The conductor, a vicious Nazi, shouted at the Jew:
“YOU WILL IMMEDIATELY REMOVE THAT PARCEL, OR I’LL THROW IT OUT OF THE WINDOW!”
The Jew remained unmoved, and said nothing. The conductor took the parcel and threw it through the open window into the street and shouted, “THAT WILL TEACH YOU TO RESPECT OTHER PEOPLE’S RIGHTS!”
“It wasn’t my parcel!” said the Jew.
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“When Professor Albert Einstein published his sensational Theory of
Relativity, everyone spoke of the genius who had shaken the entire world of
science (I’m unsure as to whether he wore dark glasses to avoid being
recognized). At that time Einstein said, “Should my theory be proved valid,
then Germany and France will fight over me. Germany will say that I am German
and France will say that I’m a world citizen. Should the theory not prove
true, Germany and France will still fight over me. France will say that I’m a
German and Germany will say that I’m a Jew!”
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“An elderly Jewish man who served his community as a religious teacher and
butcher stood before a German judge who was known for his anti-Semitic views.
During all the proceedings he never called the defendant by his name but
referred to him only as “Mr. Butcher”. When the hearing was over, the judge
asked the old man, “MR. Butcher, do you wish to add anything to your
statement?”
“Yes, Sir, replied the man. “I would like to emphasise that to humans I’m a
teacher and only to beasts am I a butcher.”
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
“”In 1932 the writer Israel Zangwill travelled from London to Berlin to take
part in a Zionist meeting. In Berlin he went into a café and seated himself
at the only vacant place, next to two women. When the women saw Zangwill
reading a Jewish Newspaper, one of them said, “Is there nowhere a German can
go without having to meet a Jew? Zangwill’s dry response was, “Why don’t you
try hell?!”
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
At the tailors:
” Moshe ordered a pair of trousers from Chaim the tailor. Chaim promised from the bottom of his heart to get them ready in two weeks time. But one month went by, and then another month, and yet the trousers were anything but ready. After three months of waiting, Moshe lost all patience. He went into the tailor’s shop and shouted at him: “Three months aren’t enough for you to make a pair of trousers – while the Almighty blessed be He, created the whole world in six days!”
To which Chaim unmoved replied, “And doesn’t it look like it?”
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
Getting married:
“The suddenly nervous father of the bride sought the rabbi’s advice.
“Rabbi, you must help me!” he said.
“I promised the groom a dowry of 20,000 zlotys, but I’ve only got 10,000! And now he’s threatening not to marry my daughter if I don’t put the full amount on the table by tomorrow!”
The rabbi pondered the problem gravely.
“Formally, of course, you have to keep your promise. So I suggest that you put the 10,000 zlotys that you have on the table – put it in front of a mirror. Then you can tell the groom:
” Here are 10,000 and there (in the mirror) are 10,000. That makes a total of 20, 000!”
The troubled man sighed and said, “Rabbi, do you think that I don’t know that trick already?
The 10,000 zlotys that I have already, includes the money in the mirror!” |
Edited by - Cornelius on 11 Jan 2007 17:00:43 |
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Cornelius
Sweden
1051 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jan 2007 : 15:34:09
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Karamba,
You have excused my typographical errors in advance. Thank you.
(Yesterday I posted some innocuous jokes that have kept me in good humour as I recover from the flu, Jewish Humour by Abraham Hochwald – not about hell - and they were REMOVED: I also DEMAND A REASON for this type of tyranny that even lacks a sense of humour. They were not Danish-made Muhammadan Cartoons.
I am reposting those jokes at the bottom of this my reply to your posting and ask whether in your opinion they should have been REMOVED.
If they are removed this time around, I swear to my mother who gave birth to me, and I was circumcised at eight days of age, I WILL leave Bantaba to you and the admin for ever - and that will not be the end of the matter. I am nobody’s boy-boy.
And yes, DENMARK was occupied by the Germans. And yes, Denmark is also a safe haven for prostitution and the sex trade in Africans. This too is well documented.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Denmark
http://www.auschwitz.dk/docu/Default.htm
http://www.auschwitz.dk/Denmark.htm
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/danish_resistance.htm
The way you sound, I wish that you were leader of the Gambia and that you had good men around you, not those that have “a lean and hungry look”. I myself would like to work with you for adult education.
Domination:
“Control or power over another or others.
The exercise of such control or power.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domination
Also refers to “hierarchy” and “Subordination” “Mastery” “Supremacy”
There is also a word “ABASEMENT” which is well defined by the Devil’s Dictionary”:
http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/devils/a.html
As one who comes from a tiny minority (Creole) in his own country of birth ( Sierra Leone) there is the tendency that I have more than ordinary sympathy for minorities and especially for oppressed minorities. But please excuse ignorance asking here, because I am familiar with the statistical ratio of the ethnic composition of the Gambia in which the Mandinka are a clear majority – which would imply that with adroit political alliances the Mandinka or a front-man of the Mandinka would always be in power.
With one man one vote, the mathematical formula for elective democracy has mostly been “the majority carries the day/vote” and so in South Africa or what was once Ian Smith’s Rhodesia we demonstrated and worked for the overthrow of such systems and for MAJORITY RULE in what is now Zimbabwe where land reform is still lagging behind and in South Africa where in 1994, 87% of the land was in old Whitey’s hands, and only an additional 3% of the 30% land that the ANC-led government had promised to transfer to the landless South African people, these past ten years – despite ANC DOMINATION –you cannot call it anything else - yet only 3% has so far been transferred - according to Professor Barney Pityana of University of South Africa. This Hardtalk was illuminating in many areas. Karamba! Your attention please:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/6247975.stm
http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&rlz=1T4GGLJ_enSE205SE205&q=Barney+Pityana&btnG=S%C3%B6k&meta=
Given the imbalance (not even near equilibrium) between North and South and North and part of the West against the East, to take my Nigeria as an example where the industrious Igbo have been mostly marginalised – the finance minister WAS REPLACED), crudely speaking, it’s all set for the North + the Islamised Yoruba West in alliance to perpetuate rule in Nigeria. Also, given the fact that the Shia outnumber the Sunni in Iran and Iraq, by submitting to that formula of majority rule, there is no question about who is and will be in charge in those two countries. It is of course the Shia.
The US administartion is conscious of this:
http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=3713#comments
There are countless other examples.
Israel’s demographic nightmare is about Arabs overpopulating that country even when established within secure borders since it is only the Arabs and the Orthodox Jews in Israel who are most responsive to God’s edict: “be fruitful and multiple” and the unwilling and the rebels complain that they cannot all be like Jack Rabbits…..
Here we have a brave Jola who is boi-boi to no one (of course in my opinion one of the problems of the Gambia – from this distance, is that there are too many boy-boys.)
However, Karamba what I am asking you here is clarity: Usually when the word DOMINATION is used or applied, it would imply a minority imposing its dominance, in that case unjustly.
But here you make it clear that it is a conglomeration of (self-seeking) interests (as in any society – including the central committees of Communist parties) that dominate.
What you describe is an essential feature of the classical class society and I thought that you were giving a theoretical example of the United States Of America, or the New Russia (leaving aside all the capital in the hands of the richest man in the Gambia – who also got the Lansana Conte prize for Agriculture, and the peasants, and the bureaucrats among whom there are possibly one or two plutocrats/KLEPTOCRATS)
Here is your classical statement, your words:
“In the economic arena, those with larger possession of money and material play dominance over the rest. That is how politics is also played in Gambia.”
Are you about to embraces Leon Trotsky?
http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&rlz=1T4GGLJ_enSE205SE205&q=Leon+Trotsky&btnG=S%C3%B6k&meta=
“In the game of dominance” you say, “those who play together share the same interest.”
Yes, this is natural. They are in the same football team and have the same goal: to score more goals and win. Is it illegal? You mean where is their social conscience? I should say that it is with their extended family. As you say “They have greater personal survival motives more than anything.”
Perhaps you are looking for a Robin Hood as president. The type that some in Sweden would like to have as Finance and taxation minister.
Here’s a free read and it was not for nothing that every schoolboy had this at his fingertips (I read the entire book aloud to my son when he was ten years old, so many discussion evenings:
http://www.george-orwell.org/Animal_Farm/index.html
Your most important question, your parthian shot about people- empowerment remains unanswered, but I do have a lot of good ideas in that area:
“How do you think all can come together as UNITED GAMBIA AGAINST DOMINATION?
My dearly departed friend and mentor Dr Mikhail Tunkel (of Lithuanian parents born and bred in Harbin, China - emigrated to Israel in 1950 had a portrait of Paul Robeson he himself had drawn - gracing his dining room. Showing it to me the first time (glowing with artistic pride - he also played Chinese piano and loved CHOPIN -we never got to talking about Pushkin )but he would often tell me that only a black was most capable of understanding the Jew, perhaps because historically we have both suffered so much discrimination and racism for hundreds of years, and if you substitute black man for Jew in most racist or even joke situations, what he says is mostly true - he was also talking about emotions (and the Blues) and here's a good quotation:
“NEVER APOLOGISE FOR SHOWING FEELING; WHEN YOU DO SO, YOU APOLOGISE FOR THE TRUTH” (Benjamin Disraeli said that)
The jokes were:
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
“It’s recorded that "Sir Moses Montefiore, a famous English Jewish
Philanthropist, was sitting next to an anti-Semitic aristocrat at a banquet.
“I have just returned from a trip to Japan,” said the anti-Semite, “and to my
surprise, I discovered that they have neither Jews nor pigs in Japan.”
“Is that so?” responded Montefiore. “In that case the two of us should
settle in Japan, so that they have at least one member of each species.”
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
Berlin, 1935. An Aryan boarded a tram and saw that the only free seat was next to a Jew, but on this seat there lay a huge parcel.
“REMOVE THE PARCEL!” demanded the Aryan.
Why?
REMOVE THE PARCEL RIGHT NOW, OR ELSE I’LL CALL THE CONDUCTOR!”
“Call whoever you like!”
The conductor, a vicious Nazi, shouted at the Jew:
“YOU WILL IMMEDIATELY REMOVE THAT PARCEL, OR I’LL THROW IT OUT OF THE WINDOW!”
The Jew remained unmoved, and said nothing. The conductor took the parcel and threw it through the open window into the street and shouted, “THAT WILL TEACH YOU TO RESPECT OTHER PEOPLE’S RIGHTS!”
“It wasn’t my parcel!” said the Jew.
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
“When Professor Albert Einstein published his sensational Theory of
Relativity, everyone spoke of the genius who had shaken the entire world of
science (I’m unsure as to whether he wore dark glasses to avoid being
recognized). At that time Einstein said, “Should my theory be proved valid,
then Germany and France will fight over me. Germany will say that I am German
and France will say that I’m a world citizen. Should the theory not prove
true, Germany and France will still fight over me. France will say that I’m a
German and Germany will say that I’m a Jew!”
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
“An elderly Jewish man who served his community as a religious teacher and
butcher stood before a German judge who was known for his anti-Semitic views.
During all the proceedings he never called the defendant by his name but
referred to him only as “Mr. Butcher”. When the hearing was over, the judge
asked the old man, “MR. Butcher, do you wish to add anything to your
statement?”
“Yes, Sir, replied the man. “I would like to emphasise that to humans I’m a
teacher and only to beasts am I a butcher.”
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
“”In 1932 the writer Israel Zangwill travelled from London to Berlin to take
part in a Zionist meeting. In Berlin he went into a café and seated himself
at the only vacant place, next to two women. When the women saw Zangwill
reading a Jewish Newspaper, one of them said, “Is there nowhere a German can
go without having to meet a Jew? Zangwill’s dry response was, “Why don’t you
try hell?!”
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
At the tailors:
” Moshe ordered a pair of trousers from Chaim the tailor. Chaim promised from the bottom of his heart to get them ready in two weeks time. But one month went by, and then another month, and yet the trousers were anything but ready. After three months of waiting, Moshe lost all patience. He went into the tailor’s shop and shouted at him: “Three months aren’t enough for you to make a pair of trousers – while the Almighty blessed be He, created the whole world in six days!”
To which Chaim unmoved replied, “And doesn’t it look like it?”
¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤
Getting married:
“The suddenly nervous father of the bride sought the rabbi’s advice.
“Rabbi, you must help me!” he said.
“I promised the groom a dowry of 20,000 zlotys, but I’ve only got 10,000! And now he’s threatening not to marry my daughter if I don’t put the full amount on the table by tomorrow!”
The rabbi pondered the problem gravely.
“Formally, of course, you have to keep your promise. So I suggest that you put the 10,000 zlotys that you have on the table – put it in front of a mirror. Then you can tell the groom:
” Here are 10,000 and there (in the mirror) are 10,000. That makes a total of 20, 000!”
The troubled man sighed and said, “Rabbi, do you think that I don’t know that trick already?
The 10,000 zlotys that I have already, includes the money in the mirror!” |
Edited by - Cornelius on 11 Jan 2007 17:00:43 |
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Karamba
United Kingdom
3820 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jan 2007 : 18:47:44
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Cornelius,
Happy New Year to you and your family. I was already wondering where about on planet Earth Corney would have been resting. Sorry to learn that you fell in the tormenting hands of flu but defeated it in the end. You have posted very rich inputs, so rich it will not be fair to give it a hasty feedback. If there was anything I liked about BANTABA, this your posting is none lesser than any. Because I wish to give a fairer response, I beg your indulgence to shelf up while I fully digest the stuff that you so kindly dished out. You have in a big way provided good food not for thought but for the soul. Allow me to take on the issue later when I am able to clear my screen of other overlapping issues. Get back to you later. Meanwhile, I wish you speedier recovery. The jokes are therapic and capable of curing even the flu that kept you off Bantaba. |
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Karamba
United Kingdom
3820 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jan 2007 : 18:47:44
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Cornelius,
Happy New Year to you and your family. I was already wondering where about on planet Earth Corney would have been resting. Sorry to learn that you fell in the tormenting hands of flu but defeated it in the end. You have posted very rich inputs, so rich it will not be fair to give it a hasty feedback. If there was anything I liked about BANTABA, this your posting is none lesser than any. Because I wish to give a fairer response, I beg your indulgence to shelf up while I fully digest the stuff that you so kindly dished out. You have in a big way provided good food not for thought but for the soul. Allow me to take on the issue later when I am able to clear my screen of other overlapping issues. Get back to you later. Meanwhile, I wish you speedier recovery. The jokes are therapic and capable of curing even the flu that kept you off Bantaba. |
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