Racist Joke Remixes - GOOOOOOOOO!

[emma]

i'm pretty sure you could replace moncton with 'newfie' TL and it would ring a lot more true.  my family is from newfoundland and otherwise tolerant canadians find newfie jokes just as hilarious as americans find polish jokes.  i don't think they're that funny even though i'm allowed to... (newfoundlanders are still relatively poor and viewed as a drain on canada's welfare state). 

Weird: I've actually never heard anyone tell a newfie joke, but I've heard people talking about how everyone tells newfie jokes. Maybe I don't hang out with enough racists?

The only other thing I can add to this topic is that my great-uncle Art, once into the wine/Bushmills at basically any family event, will tell a string of jokes like TL's and then get really, really mad if any of us laugh.

[Sarah]

Samir, your joke made me giggle helplessly for a few moments.  I'm one-eighth Irish--is that enough to give me license to laugh without censure?  Bobby?  So Cow?  TL?  Others?

[John Junk 2.0]

I thought it was pretty funny, and I'm Irish American.  But Samir has an English accent, so it's racist and hurtful. 

[Sarah]

Well, your comment made me guffaw out loud, JJ, so it beat out samir's joke.  Does that take away any of the sting?

[John Junk 2.0]

Yeah, I feel a little better (sniff).


Hey check out what I found...

[Chris L]

I hate to see you upset, John Junk.  Here's a picture I drew of you to make you feel better:






Wait, that's actually my drawing of TL.  My mistake. 

[John Junk 2.0]

Ha Ha.

[bobby.]

Samir, your joke made me giggle helplessly for a few moments.  I'm one-eighth Irish--is that enough to give me license to laugh without censure?  Bobby?  So Cow?  TL?  Others?

Yes, that one's funny (and race-specific) because we can't pronounce the word "three" properly. Apparantly.

hahaha

[TL]

I hate to see you upset, John Junk.  Here's a picture I drew of you to make you feel better:






Wait, that's actually my drawing of TL.  My mistake. 

I resemble that remark!

[So Cow]

Shannon Airport is no laughing matter. 

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

I'm usually all for thread drift, but how did this become the make-fun-of-the-Irish thread?  As a half-Irish half-Jew who used to downplay the Jew part while going to haadcoah shows at City Gardens and various other social settings in Jersey, but who cynically embraced the Jewish half upon moving to NYC and realizing that the ladies here actually liked Jewish guys, I'm what was I talking about again?

OK, let me do a little remixin':

Two Sons of David (aka Black Israelites), Wentworth and F.S., pass each other on 43rd Street in Manhattan.  Wentworth is carrying a large lumpy sack.  There appears to be something moving around inside of it.  "Are you teaching, preaching, speaking according to the law & the testimony?" asked F.S.  "Isaiah 8:20: To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them," replied Wentworth.  "Are you walking in the deception that the whole earth is walking in through the false religions of modern-day Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc.," said F.S.  "Religions and philosophies whereby Satan has deceived this WHOLE world causing it to be cursed?" "I invite you to stand up for truth right now! You have been giving a talent to teach, preach, lead, rap and/or sing but unless you do these things in TRUTH and edification of the coming kingdom of YAHWEH, (HALLELU-YAH!) then no matter how much honor, riches and fame you have, it's all for NOUGHT!," replied Wentworth.  "Pure vanity!"  "We are in these last days and the Father is awakening his people out of their slumber!  Peace & Blessings.," said F.S.

[bobby.]

haadcoah

What's that?! The first result on google is the Friends of Tom forum, so that's of little help!

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Can some nice person post the archive link to the Hammerhead call for Bobby?

(In the meantime, it's "hardcore" with an NY/NJ accent).

[bobby.]

Can some nice person post the archive link to the Hammerhead call for Bobby?

(In the meantime, it's "hardcore" with an NY/NJ accent).

Oh, hackaw! I should say everything I read aloud. I thought you were making shit up!

[Fido]

Yes, and knowing something about the origin of the stupid polock jokes makes me want to vomit when I hear one.

And as you say, that particular joke's effect is not contingent on the specific group of people it's directed at - Minnesotans could say it about Iowans, Northerners could say it about Southerners, etc., and vise versa.

You've highlighted the phenomenon of the pointless ethnic joke, whereby a poor joke is devised to dis another group that isn't significantly different from the joke teller's own group, such as Minnesotans and Iowans (at least those living close to the border).  I grew up hearing these jokes occasionally, but they weren't told in a meanspirited way, as far as I could tell.  Nor were they particularly funny, viz.  "Why does the wind always blow out of the north in Albert Lea?  Because Iowa sucks." 

Norwegians and Swedes tell ethnic jokes about each other, two groups so linguistically similar that it's almost like making one's own group the butt of the joke.