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From: medev@my12.sm.luth.se (Alexander Medvedev)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Russian .SNF fonts
Date: 16 Nov 92 10:58:13 GMT


						Alexander 
						medev@sm.luth.se
						amedvedev@finabo.abo.fi
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: didinsky@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (didinsky garry)
Subject: Re: I wish I knew some Armenian/Azari jokes, but...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:45:13 GMT

muh@physics.Berkeley.EDU (Yury M. Mukharsky) writes:

>In article <By304r.ADw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> didinsky@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (didinsky garry) writes:

>>Let me quote from the joke: "Kiss me." What is a kiss? Can anyone kiss anyone?
>>For example I know I can kiss my girlfriend, in the matter of fact, if I don't

>You should read more of classical literature, than you would learn, that
>all lit.Crit. leads to one conlusion: "Evrei ljubjat toru..." :).

   Evrei lyubyat den'gi,
   Da den'gi chto bol'shie.
   Evrei lyubyat mamu,
   Tu chto bul'yen varila...(Musyika tsyiganskaya, slova ne refmuyuschiesya).

>References on request :)

Eto tyi kak i ya spet' chto-to khochesh?

>Yury M.

Ya poet zovus' ya Garik,
Ot menya vam vsem fonarik. :-)
From: YERGIN@portland.bitnet
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: unsubscribe
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:39:42 GMT
Reply-To: "soc.culture.soviet via ListServ" <SCS-L@indycms.iupui.edu>

Dear sir/madame,
Please UN-subscribe April Yergin from the list. Too much mail volume!
Thank you.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Our discussions...
From: <VABHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Thursday, 19 Nov 1992 19:40:35 EST
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

>
>         Vechno, i niskol'ko ne stareya
>         Vsyudu, i v lyuboye vremya goda
>         Dlitsya, kak soydutsya dva yevreya,
>         Spor o sud'bah russkogo naroda.
>
>
>
>     Vo-vo, vot imenno. Hi-hi.
>
From: mam18@jaguar.uofs.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: How many Soviet emigres does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Date: 23 Nov 92 17:09:50 GMT
Organization: University of Scranton

In article <1992Nov18.143852.19992@watson.ibm.com>, bil@burka..aix.kingston.ibm.com (Igor Belchinskiy) writes:
 
> So we have two comets who always come back - Patricia and Vulis.
> Like flies to sugar.

Let's be more self-critical.  If you compare those two with flies, then make
it correctly: "like flies to shit."  It would be more appropriate.

> 	-igor

Michael Martynov.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Don't be ethnic,  Man.
From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
Date: 21 Nov 92 12:24:41 EST
Organization: The Phallogocentric Cabal

In article <11638@boyd.ed.ac.uk> 
alexei@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Alexei Moiseyev) writes:

BV:
>>Hello:
>>May I remind you the da-tse-bao by IGOR' GUBERMAN. It seems that
>>it was written just for this newsgroup.
>>(Let English-speaking users pardon me, but I cannot translate it
>>adequately. It should be read in Russian).
>>
>>         Vechno, i niskol'ko ne stareya
>>         Vsyudu, i v lyuboye vremya goda
>>         Dlitsya, kak soydutsya dva yevreya,
>>         Spor o sud'bah russkogo naroda.

AM:
>Well here we have another ethnocentristic netter.  Isn`t it time we've
>stopped attributing nationality to people on the basis of their
>ethnicity?  As one user pointed out, even Pamyat' activists do not do it.

I agree with Alexei unreservedly.  Let Guberman speak for his own
parochial self; by contrast, I claim the right to argue about the fate
of any nation whatsoever.  The fact that I do not believe in the hoary
commonplaces of national character and destiny, should have absolutely
no bearing on this issue.

>							A.M-T.

>> Good luck

>>   -Boris Veytsman

cordially,
mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
a rootless cosmopolite with a blue passport
"Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."

Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: bil@burka..aix.kingston.ibm.com (Igor Belchinskiy)
Subject: Re: Andrei Rublev
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 19:43:45 GMT
Organization: Be. I am.

timofeev@sscvx1.ssc.gov writes:

>Dear Tim!
>"Andrei Rublev" one of the best Russian film. ...

What are others?

>Slava

	-igor
Xref: sparky soc.culture.soviet:10152 soc.culture.turkish:11901 talk.politics.mideast:22388 talk.politics.soviet:9078 soc.rights.human:4276
From: J.Theodore.Schuerzinger@dartmouth.edu (J. Theodore Schuerzinger)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet,soc.culture.turkish,talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.soviet,soc.rights.human
Subject: Kurdish-language publishing
Date: 22 Nov 92 03:01:02 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0a5@newshost.dartmouth.edu

For Serdar, I hereby post a copy of the post from soc.culture.nordic
referring the publishing of Kurdish-language books using the Latin
alphabet.  Let's see if Serdar has the decorum to keep from widening
his anti-Armenian attacks to soc.culture.nordic.  :-)

In article <nkjrm.26@taxus.uib.no>
nkjrm@taxus.uib.no (Rolf Manne) writes:

>  This applies e.g to Kurds from Turkey whose native language 
> cannot be used in Turkish schools. Turkey uses the latin alphabet while
> Kurds in Iraq and Iran use Arabic script and those in the former Soviet
> Union cyrillic characters. A Kurdish "home language" teacher I once met 
> thus had to teach his native language in three different alphabets.
> 
> Because of oppressive Turkish language policies there are no school-books 
> available from that country for Kurds using the latin alphabet. I believe 
> that I read some years ago that such books were only printed in Sweden.

I think that explains it well, right?

--Ted Schuerzinger
email: .zed@Dartmouth.EDU
From: mam18@sparrow.cs.uofs.edu (Michael A Martinov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Martynov, grow up!!!
Keywords: What are ___ talking about?
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:46:33 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing Sciences

In article <98072@netnews.upenn.edu>, burshtey@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Alexander `
> In article <11262@platypus.uofs.uofs.edu> mam18@pheasant.cs.uofs.edu (Michael`
>>It seems for me, that you said even more than you needed... specially in the
>                                                              ^^^^^^^^^
> That's "especially." Tak chto, "ch'ya by mychala..."


According to Prof. V.K.Muller (English-Russian Dictionary, 1963), "specially"
means exactly the same thing, so your example of my misspelling
wasn't the best one...

>  [...]
> Come on, can't a person mistype once in his lifetime without some jerk in
> this otherwise nice newsgroup deriving infantile malicious pleasure from it?!
> (Of course, as you may have guessed, I mean no one in particular.)

I would consider a mis-spelling as a typo-error, but not a missing word in the
subject line.  It looked, at least, odd.  And at most, I'd got a negative
attitude not just toward the whole article, but also toward its author.


> Spelling flames are dumbest things I've ever read on the net, so this is the
> last time I'm answering that sort of nonsense.

Once again, I had no spelling claims in my critical reply, but the claim of
not presence of an important word in the sentence.

>
>>Respectfully,
>>
>>Michael Martynov.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Alex Burshteyn.

Still respectfully,

Michael Martynov.                 Messages to be sent: MAM18@jaguar.ucs.uofs.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: ckose@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: <None>
Date: 19 Nov 92 16:54:58 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services


This is information about "BRAIN-RING".I played this game in Moscow, and if you 
want you can contact with me. Actually, it will be interesting to organize such
things here.
From: muh@physics.Berkeley.EDU (Yury M. Mukharsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: I wish I knew some Armenian/Azari jokes, but...
Date: 23 Nov 1992 18:55:52 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.berkeley.edu

In article <By304r.ADw@news.cso.uiuc.edu> didinsky@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (didinsky garry) writes:

>Let me quote from the joke: "Kiss me." What is a kiss? Can anyone kiss anyone?
>For example I know I can kiss my girlfriend, in the matter of fact, if I don't

You should read more of classical literature, than you would learn, that
all lit.Crit. leads to one conlusion: "Evrei ljubjat toru..." :).

References on request :)

Yury M.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: vlad@erg.sri.com (vlad)
Subject: Re: Leave Vysotsky alone!
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 01:25:23 GMT

I stopped reading this group for a couple of weeks and missed such an exciting
discussion... I just cought the tail end of it:

In article <2639@cronos.metaphor.com> covdy@cronos.metaphor.com (Ivan Covdy) writes:
>
>I think the main question is not whether Vysotsky is better than
>Rozenbaum or vice versa. 

Why not? It is fun comparing a great poet with an amateur. 

>The main questions should be

> - for one part or this group:
>
>1. Was V.Vysotsky an antisemit or not?
>2. Had he ever sung/written/spoken/thought anything antisemitic or not?

What a silly question. Throughout many of his songs, like "Antisemites",
"Gitler krichal ot zavoda baldeya", "... No eto svetilo byl k sozhalenyu
evrei", etc., Vysotsky has pointed out his hatred for antisemites, for
discrimination against Jews, and his pride in Jewish people.

Of course, in "Mishka Shifman" he poked fun at Jewish emigration, but that
was in good humor.

>3. Is it true that his grandfather/brother-in-law/cousin/ant-in-law/etc.

I would not be surprised if his father were indeed antisemitic. He was a
Jew, and all Jews have some degree of self-denigration. :-)

>4. If he was not antisemitic, then how was he prosecuted because
>   of having some Jewish blood in his veins?

Run that one by me again. Are you saying that only antisemites are
"prosecuted because of having some Jewish blood in his veins"?

Is this a joke?

>5. etc.

This one got me...

> - for another part of this group:
>
>1. Try to prove, that, because V.Vysotsky was a good guy, he couldn't have
>   any relation to those fucking Jews;

What do you mean "a good guy". Vysotsky is a hated figure for all Pamyat
members and other "patriots" both for his "non_Aryan" blood, and for the
fact that he despised all these "patriots" and communists, and for the fact
that this "democrat and half-Jew" became the most beloved poet among
average Russians. 

>2. Emphasize, that V.Vysotsky didn't emigrate like other "stinking rats,
>   who are not even worth persucuting them" (or how was it said in one of
>   V.A.'s "perls").

I'd love to read these pearls!

>3. If 1. doesn't work, that is, if Vysotsky was a [half-]Jew, then
>   a) he stil was a great patriot of Russia and never 
>      "whined about being prosecuted" in Russia;
>   b) many-many Russian people admired and liked him; this proves that
>      the great Russian people has nothing to do with antisemitism;

"Some of my best friends are Jewish"

Recall that two leaders of the fascist movement in Russia, Zhirinovsky and
Nevzorov, are half-Jewish themselves.

Vlad

Employer may disagree

Xref: sparky soc.culture.soviet:9942 rec.arts.books:20146
From: verbit@coolidge.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Eduard Limonov
Date: 22 Nov 92 05:14:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Nov22.001404.17679
Organization: Sozialistische Patienten Kollektiv

In article <1992Nov20.212214.16631@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> frants@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Leonid Frants) writes:

>Is this the Eduard Limonov who wrote 'Eto Ia Edichka' and 'Palach'? I
>would think it is  just a coincidence if not for the "Savenko" part of
>the name. One of Limonov's early books was called "Podrostok Savenko"
>and claimed to be autobiographical I think. 

	Sure! Savenko is his real name, Limonov - pseudonim.
	
	Misha.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: oleg@watson.ibm.com (Oleg Vishnepolsky)
Subject: Re: Andrei Rublev
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:58:40 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.15 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: oleg@watson.ibm.com (Oleg Vishnepolsky)
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

In <1992Nov16.194345.42825@watson.ibm.com> bil@burka..aix.kingston.ibm.com
(Igor Belchinskiy) writes:
>timofeev@sscvx1.ssc.gov writes:
>
>>Dear Tim!
>>"Andrei Rublev" one of the best Russian film. ...
>
>What are others?
>
>>Slava
>
>       -igor

How about "Sud'ba soldata" ?

Oleg V
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: bil@burka..aix.kingston.ibm.com (Igor Belchinskiy)
Subject: Re: Burshteyn, speak English!!!
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 14:29:08 GMT
Organization: Be. I am.
Keywords: What are ___ talking about?

In article <11262@platypus.uofs.uofs.edu> mam18@pheasant.cs.uofs.edu (Michael A Martinov) writes:
>Subject: Re: Burshteyn, speak English!!!
>
	[substantial contents deleted]

>I think there will be a lot of futher comments on your article.

Just one: let's save usage of people names in Subject line for m u t l u,
especially in flame context, OK?

>Respectfully,
That would be respectfully.
>
>Michael Martynov.

	-igor
From: Slava@KREMVAX.HQ.DEMOS.SU
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re:  STOP IT !
Date: 22 Nov 92 19:38:13 GMT
Reply-To: "soc.culture.soviet via ListServ" <SCS-L@indycms.iupui.edu>


  Alex Milshteyn screaming in utter dispair:

> PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME ANY MORE MAIL!
> THIS IS MY SECOND REQUEST TO STOP IT.
> YOU SEND MEAT LEAST 4 MB OF YOU "LITERATURE"
> EVERY DAY WITHOUT MY CONSENT.  I AM SICK
> AND TIRED IF IT.  IF IT DOES NOT STOP,
> I WILL FILL OBLIGED TO CONTACT YOUR SYSADM.
>
> ALEXM@CIPR-SERVER.MGH.HARVARD.EDU

  Could anybody help poor guy to cope with his computer ?
Sudden voltage surge would probably do the work...

  Respectfully,
  Slavik

-----
  -Huu-a-a-ah, Ya-ahahauh, aa-aohouha-a !!!!
  -Ohaua-a-a,...Ya-ahahauh, aa-aaaaaaa !!!!
                            (Queen, Bohemian Rapsody)
----
From: sergei@upenn5.hep.upenn.edu (Sergei Borodin)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Fylologi fleim
Date: 16 Nov 92 19:03:50 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Nov16.125748.1@jaguar.uofs.edu> mam18@jaguar.uofs.edu writes:

>Dear Michaels, Mishas, Mikhails, Mikes,or Moshes,

>Poka vy obsuzhdaete nasusshchnuiu temu filologii, nas polivaiut po vsei seti
>nekhoroshimi slovami tipa "skumbag".  I schitaiu, chto pora prizvat' k otvetu
>vsekh etikh inoplemennykh, kotorye posiagaiutsia na nashe s vami imia.

 Po stilju - Il'ich. Baa, i po prvopisaniju - Il'ich: "posiagajutsia na
 nashe ... imia". Hotja, konechno, dlja Il'icha pisali, a vy, kak ja
 ponimaju - sami. Eto trudnee. 

>Gospodin Zeleny, vam ne slabo prigotovit' k boiu vashu pushku.
>A vy, Verbitskii, matiushkom ikh rodimykh pozhaluista...
>A ia protivogaz prinesu, vot my i povoiuem...

  Kak streljat', tak "gospodin Zeleny". Kak kogo matjuskom oblozhit'
  tak, znachit Verbitsky. A vy, sudarik, v protivogazike otsidet'sa
  reshili? Ne vyjdet. 

>		S uvazheniem, Michael Martynov ili prosto Misha.

 S.B.
From: mam18@pheasant.cs.uofs.edu (Michael A Martinov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Hookers taking vouchers?
Keywords: Tseny rastut.
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:37:19 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing Sciences

In article <1992Nov9.113505.1@acad3.alaska.edu>, ftsam@acad3.alaska.edu (Sergei Maurits) writes:
|> In article <1992Nov9.120258.1@jaguar.uofs.edu>, mam18@jaguar.uofs.edu writes:
|> 
|> > In article <84600057@glas.apc.org>, margaret@glas.apc.org 
|> (Patricia Schwartz) writes:
|> >> Rumor currently all over Moscow:
|> >> Prostitutes have begun to accept privatization vouchers in payment
|> >> for their sexual services. 
|> >> This is not a joke - I heard it from several different sources.
|> > 
|> 
|> mam18@jaguar:
|>


Actually, you could address me Michael, I won't be disappointed.

 
|> > Several years ago there was a rumor in Moscow about the coming end of the 
|> > world (I heard it from several different people; so, maybe it also wasn't
|> > a joke???). 
|> > Michael.
|> 
|> 
|> To Whom It May Concern:
|> 
|> Market price of vaucher (privatizatsionnyj check) climbed from 3000 rubl.
|> (beginning of Oct.) to 7000-8000 (b. of Nov.), that is comparable to high 
|> monthly salary. Taking into account this information as a background, it is
|> hardly to deny that vaucher can be considered as desirable tender in many
|> kind of everyday situations.

Do you know, that for the last three  (3) weeks, the price of one dollar in Moscow
Currency Market rased from 350 rubles to 410 rubles by now.  It's obviously, that 
the prices for vauchers would rise also.

|> 
|> As for "end of the world" rumors, thay were persistent in Moscow since
                                     ^^^^
I like this word! It's in the style of Louis Dodgson (Carrol).

|> Peter the Great times and perhaps earlier. Till the moment it happened 
|> to be slightly exaggerated, that is defenitly not a proof that it will be
|> the case in the future. I (as possibly other netteres) would appreciate
|> if the bulletin with the current probability evaluation will be periodically 
|> published by knowledgeable pollster.

Your argument isn't a valid proof (tell you as a mathematician).  By the way, if 
the rumors are not a proof, then why you try to persuade us that the latest rumor
about vauchers is valid?

|> 
|> Thank you for the prompt attention to the matter.
|> 
|> --Serega, AK


You are quite welcome,

Michael.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: LANDSBERG@sbhep2.phy.sunysb.edu (Greg Landsberg)
Subject: Re: Russian .SNF fonts ( correction)
Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:28:20 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

In <1349@my.sm.luth.se> medev@my12.sm.luth.se writes:

> 
> 					Alexander
> 					medev@sm.luth.se
> 					amedvedev@finabo.abo.fi

Thanks  for you   educational  posting!  However, I was  able to  find only
letters:   .@Aabdefhilmnorstuvx  which by the way  look like  normal ASCII.
Please, post the rest :-)!

Greg
From: ftsam@acad3.alaska.edu (Sergei Maurits)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Fylologi fleim
Date: 17 Nov 92 07:30:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: acad3.1992Nov16.233027.1
Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks

In article <1992Nov16.125748.1@jaguar.uofs.edu>, mam18@jaguar.uofs.edu writes:

> In article <1992Nov9.205208.17277@husc3.harvard.edu>, 
>zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
>> In article <1992Nov9.191304.17269@husc3.harvard.edu> 
>> verbit@brauer.harvard.edu (Mikhail S. Verbitsky) writes: 
>>>In his article
>>>mkagalen@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (michael kagalenko) writes:
>> 
>>>>In his article
>>>>zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
>> [....]
>>>Misha.
>> 
>> cordially,
>> mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
>> "Un de mes plus grands plaisirs est de jurer Dieu quand je bande."

mam@Jaguar: 
> 
> Dear Michaels, Mishas, Mikhails, Mikes,or Moshes,
> 
> Poka vy obsuzhdaete nasusshchnuiu temu filologii, nas polivaiut po vsei seti
> nekhoroshimi slovami tipa "skumbag".  I schitaiu, chto pora prizvat' k otvetu
> vsekh etikh inoplemennykh, kotorye posiagaiutsia na nashe s vami imia.
> 
> Gospodin Zeleny, vam ne slabo prigotovit' k boiu vashu pushku.
> A vy, Verbitskii, matiushkom ikh rodimykh pozhaluista...
> A ia protivogaz prinesu, vot my i povoiuem...
> 
> 		S uvazheniem, Michael Martynov ili prosto Misha.

Znaete, "prosto Misha", ya by Vam porekomendoval ostavit' popytki stat'
nachal'nikom khimzashchity i podat'sya v politruki.

Ychtuvaya Vashu leksiky, u Vas, dumayou, poluchitsya.

--Serega, AK
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: mb7s@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Mikhail  Boukhny)
Subject: Re: What are talking about?
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:42:30 GMT

You guys better tell me how to get Visa or MC not via these stupid 
socialistic Credit Unions, but directly.They seem to be certain that I'll 
disappear as soon as Ia get their f...ing piece of plastics w/magnetic strip
ape.
Misha.
From: muh@physics.Berkeley.EDU (Yury M. Mukharsky)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: Sam Kretin (Sergeiu i Co.) (was Re: Mark Twain...)
Date: 16 Nov 1992 00:21:16 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.berkeley.edu

In article <BxqpI3.97I@cs.columbia.edu> igor@cs.columbia.edu (Igor Pankevich) writes:
>
>The song "America, America..." is not exactly the appropriate thing here.
>Maybe you mean the US National anthem? It is a different song...
>
Proshu proschenia za oshibku, tak znaete-li privykaesh' k gimnu bez slov...

Yury M.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
From: smir+@CS.CMU.EDU (Yury Smirnov)
Subject: Re: F M Sh #45
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:06:03 GMT

In article <92322.214717VABHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, <VABHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
|> 
|> Again...Looking for 1982 graduates, 10-g klass
|> >
|> >
|> >
|> >
|> >
|>             Is there anybody who studied at Physical Mathematical
|>             Boarding School # 45 Attached to Leningrad University
|>             any time ? Can anybody give me coordinates to contact
|>             to the school graduates ?
|>                                      Thank you. VB

    Unfortunately, 1978 10-a.

    Yury
From: didinsky@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (didinsky garry)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: I wish I knew some Armenian/Azari jokes, but...
Date: 21 Nov 92 19:43:38 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

But, I don't know any. Therefore, I have to go on copying my Jewish joke
book page by page.

Joke 1: Milly Levy govorit svoemu psykhiatoru Dr. Ginsbergu:
"Kiss me!"
Ginsberg otvechaet:" That's all I need! I shouldn't even be lying next to you!"

Joke 2: Old Abie is on his deathbed. He calls his beloved wife. 
"Hetty! I am going!"
"Oy, Abie! Don't leave me..."
"I've been thinking.. I want to leave the business to Sammy."
"Na! Not Sammy, he's only interested in pleasure. Leave it to Izzy..."
"Okay. The beach house I'll leave to Naomi.."
"Psha! She hates the see. Leave it to Rachel."
"Okay. The diamonds I'll leave to Ruthie.."
"Na. She is a spendthrift. Leave them to Naomi."
"Okay. The Rolls-Royce I'll leave to Izzy..."
"Rubbish! He can hardly drive. He's smashed up his last two cars. Leave it
to Sammy."
"Listen, Hetty, can I ask you something?"
"Sure, Abie. What is it?"
"Tell me, who's dying?"


Besides copying these jokes, I want to do something else today. I want 
to analyse jokes I write. Let's start with Joke 1:

Let me start by asking what is the point of this joke?  and does this joke
have a point to make? or even, is it addressing any social issue? I think
answer to all three questions should be yes.

Let me quote from the joke: "Kiss me." What is a kiss? Can anyone kiss anyone?
For example I know I can kiss my girlfriend, in the matter of fact, if I don't
my life could become somewhat more unpleasant. So, what is Milly saying sub-
consciously? Is she afraid that her psychatrist will go into wild hysterics?
I think that in reality, she does not want to kiss him, because she is tired
of him always laying around doing nothing and asking stupid questions.

My hypothesis is justified in the next line of the joke, when Dr. Ginsberg
admits that that he should not spend his days lying down. In conclussion,
this joke is addressing a very common social issue: people must act more 
responcibly.

---Garik.
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