The atheist OLD JOKE

tm37

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An atheist was taking a walk through the woods, admiring all that the "accident of evolution" had created. "What majestic trees! What powerful rivers! What beautiful animals!" he said to himself. As he was walking alongside the river he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him. He turned to look. He saw a 7-foot grizzly charge towards him. He ran as fast as he could up the path. He looked over his shoulder and saw that the bear was closing. He ran even faster, so scared that tears were coming to his eyes. He looked over his shoulder again, and the bear was even closer. His heart was pumping frantically and he tried to run even faster. He tripped and fell to the ground. He rolled over to pick himself up but saw the bear, right on top of him, reaching for him with his left paw and raising his right paw to strike him. At that instant the atheist cried out "Oh my God!...."

Time stopped. The bear froze. The forest was silent. Even the river stopped moving. As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out of the sky: "You deny my existence for all of these years; teach others I don't exist and, even credit creation to a cosmic accident. Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer?" The atheist looked directly into the light: "It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask You to treat me as a Christian now, but perhaps could you make the bear a Christian?" "Very well," the voice said. The light went out. The river ran again. And the sounds of the forest resumed. And then the bear dropped its right paw....brought both paws together.... bowed its head and spoke: "Lord, for this food which I am about to receive, I am truly thankful.
 

Mookow

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I prefer the one about the atheist and the Loch Ness monster. An atheist is out, rowing his boat on Loch Ness. Suddenly, his boat is grasbbed by the Loch Ness monster. The atheist cries out "God help me!" Time stops. A voice comes out of the sky "Why should I heklp you? You've never believed in me". The Atheist responded with "Well, I never believed in the Loch Ness monster, either, now did I?"
 

0ops

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Originally posted by: Mookow
I prefer the one about the atheist and the Loch Ness monster. An atheist is out, rowing his boat on Loch Ness. Suddenly, his boat is grasbbed by the Loch Ness monster. The atheist cries out "God help me!" Time stops. A voice comes out of the sky "Why should I heklp you? You've never believed in me". The Atheist responded with "Well, I never believed in the Loch Ness monster, either, now did I?"

much better joke
 

UglyCasanova

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Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
An atheist was taking a walk through the woods, admiring all that the "accident of evolution" had created.
i stopped reading right when that bias started.

Just read the damn joke
rolleye.gif
:p
 

element

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Oct 9, 1999
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Good joke, I like this one too:

A scientist was talking to God, and said, "God, we
don't really need you anymore. We can make Man
ourselves."
God was somewhat amused, but soberly replied,
"Oh, really?"
The scientist said, "Yes. As a matter of fact, why
don't we have a contest to see who can make a man
faster, you or us." So God agreed.
The scientist went back to his friends and told
them about the contest. Naturally, they were very
excited, and rushed into their lab to begin making
preparations. They set up their equipment, mixed
their chemicals, and drew up the plans for
the Man they were going to create.

After those preparations were complete, they went
outside with their shovels and started filling up a
wheelbarrow with dirt, which was the main ingredient
for making a Man. As they were rolling the
wheelbarrow back to the lab, a bolt of lightning
struck the ground nearby, making them spill the
contents of the wheelbarrow. Looking up at God, the
scientist exclaimed, "What was that for?!?"
God replied, "Get your own dirt."
 

Platypus

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Apr 26, 2001
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Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
An atheist was taking a walk through the woods, admiring all that the "accident of evolution" had created.
i stopped reading right when that bias started.

Ditto, sounds like something a overzealous christian busy-body house wife would tell at her dinner party..

Oops I just did the same thing. Ironic.
 

yakko

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Apr 18, 2000
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Originally posted by: element®
Good joke, I like this one too:

A scientist was talking to God, and said, "God, we
don't really need you anymore. We can make Man
ourselves."
God was somewhat amused, but soberly replied,
"Oh, really?"
The scientist said, "Yes. As a matter of fact, why
don't we have a contest to see who can make a man
faster, you or us." So God agreed.
The scientist went back to his friends and told
them about the contest. Naturally, they were very
excited, and rushed into their lab to begin making
preparations. They set up their equipment, mixed
their chemicals, and drew up the plans for
the Man they were going to create.

After those preparations were complete, they went
outside with their shovels and started filling up a
wheelbarrow with dirt, which was the main ingredient
for making a Man. As they were rolling the
wheelbarrow back to the lab, a bolt of lightning
struck the ground nearby, making them spill the
contents of the wheelbarrow. Looking up at God, the
scientist exclaimed, "What was that for?!?"
God replied, "Get your own dirt."

haha

This is the best of them all.
 

Killbat

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Originally posted by: element®
Good joke, I like this one too:

A scientist was talking to God, and said, "God, we
don't really need you anymore. We can make Man
ourselves."
God was somewhat amused, but soberly replied,
"Oh, really?"
The scientist said, "Yes. As a matter of fact, why
don't we have a contest to see who can make a man
faster, you or us." So God agreed.
The scientist went back to his friends and told
them about the contest. Naturally, they were very
excited, and rushed into their lab to begin making
preparations. They set up their equipment, mixed
their chemicals, and drew up the plans for
the Man they were going to create.

After those preparations were complete, they went
outside with their shovels and started filling up a
wheelbarrow with dirt, which was the main ingredient
for making a Man. As they were rolling the
wheelbarrow back to the lab, a bolt of lightning
struck the ground nearby, making them spill the
contents of the wheelbarrow. Looking up at God, the
scientist exclaimed, "What was that for?!?"
God replied, "Get your own dirt."

Yea! Now THAT's funny! :D
 

Nefrodite

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Originally posted by: dparker
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
An atheist was taking a walk through the woods, admiring all that the "accident of evolution" had created.
i stopped reading right when that bias started.

Just read the damn joke
rolleye.gif
:p

why bother? i did after seeing that bullsh*t and it only went downhill from there. religious humor is generally pathetic. maybe you should replace it with an another religion like islam or budhism. the guy walks through the woods admiring the works of allah or whatever, and then bam a bear slams him down and the true god starts babbling about christianity to him. oh thats funny. then the bear prays b4 he dines.. oh thats funny:p

 

0ops

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Any joke thread should have a poll and if it's not funny enough, the originator should have
a week's vacation to think about what he/she/it has done. :)
 

Mill

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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Originally posted by: Nefrodite
Originally posted by: dparker
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
An atheist was taking a walk through the woods, admiring all that the "accident of evolution" had created.
i stopped reading right when that bias started.

Just read the damn joke
rolleye.gif
:p

why bother? i did after seeing that bullsh*t and it only went downhill from there. religious humor is generally pathetic. maybe you should replace it with an another religion like islam or budhism. the guy walks through the woods admiring the works of allah or whatever, and then bam a bear slams him down and the true god starts babbling about christianity to him. oh thats funny. then the bear prays b4 he dines.. oh thats funny:p

Yeah but you hate all things christian. I don't think you would laugh if it was the funniest joke in the world. God forbid it should mention something to go against your atheist beliefs. And we wonder who the real Fundamentalists are around here. More like the atheists than the christians sometimes.
rolleye.gif
 

Nefrodite

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um ok. you know nothing about me. i think some religious jokes are funny. many involve pastors nuns priests... maybe you have to be jewish to be funny though, i dunno:p

what i do know is this joke isn't funny or even witty, its just pathetic.


as for christians, i'm sure some aren't happy to be associated with tm37.
 

Mill

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Oct 10, 1999
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Originally posted by: Nefrodite
um ok. you know nothing about me. i think some religious jokes are funny. many involve pastors nuns priests... maybe you have to be jewish to be funny though, i dunno:p

what i do know is this joke isn't funny or even witty, its just pathetic.


as for christians, i'm sure some aren't happy to be associated with tm37.

Well its not the first time we disagree, nor will it be the last. Lets just agree to disagree.
 

chansen

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I read all that and the punchline is a talking bear?

Besides, these types of jokes are clearly meant as messages - the humour is secondary. Of course, there are atheist "jokes" about Christians, too. I don't agree with them either. Belittle both points of view - it's a joke. Belittle one side of a divisive topic - it's just not.

Craig
 

HiveMaster

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This morning there was a knock at my door. When I answered the door I found a
well groomed, nicely dressed couple.

The man spoke first: "Hi! I'm John, and this is Mary."

Mary: "Hi! We're here to invite you to come kiss Hank's ass with us."

Me: "Pardon me?! What are you talking about? Who's Hank, and why would I want
to kiss his ass?"

John: "If you kiss Hank's ass, he'll give you a million dollars; and if you
don't, he'll kick the sh it out of you."

Me: "What? Is this some sort of bizarre mob shake-down?"

John: "Hank is a billionaire philanthropist. Hank built this town. Hank owns
this town. He can do what ever he wants, and what he wants is to give you a
million dollars, but he can't until you kiss his ass."

Me: "That doesn't make any sense. Why..."

Mary: "Who are you to question Hank's gift? Don't you want a million dollars?
Isn't it worth a little kiss on the ass?"

Me: "Well maybe, if it's legit, but..."

John: "Then come kiss Hank's ass with us."

Me: "Do you kiss Hank's ass often?"

Mary: "Oh, yes, all the time..."

Me: "And has he given you a million dollars?"

John: "Well, no, you don't actually get the money until you leave town."

Me: "So why don't you just leave town now?"

Mary: "You can't leave until Hank tells you to, or you don't get the money, and
he kicks the shi t out of you."

Me: "Do you know anyone who kissed Hank's ass, left town, and got the million
dollars?"

John: "My mother kissed Hank's ass for years. She left town last year, and I'm
sure she got the money."

Me: "Haven't you talked to her since then?"

John: "Of course not, Hank doesn't allow it."

Me: "So what makes you think he'll actually give you the money if you've never
talked to anyone who got the money?"

Mary: "Well, he gives you a little bit before you leave. Maybe you'll get a
raise, maybe you'll win a small lotto, maybe you'll just find a twenty dollar
bill on the street."

Me: "What's that got to do with Hank?

John: "Hank has certain 'connections.'"

Me: "I'm sorry, but this sounds like some sort of bizarre con game."

John: "But it's a million dollars, can you really take the chance? And
remember, if you don't kiss Hank's ass he'll kick the s hit of you."

Me: "Maybe if I could see Hank, talk to him, get the details straight from
him..."

Mary: "No one sees Hank, no one talks to Hank."

Me: "Then how do you kiss his ass?"

John: "Sometimes we just blow him a kiss, and think of his ass. Other times we
kiss Karl's ass, and he passes it on."

Me: "Who's Karl?"

Mary: "A friend of ours. He's the one who taught us all about kissing Hank's
ass. All we had to do was take him out to dinner a few times."

Me: "And you just took his word for it when he said there was a Hank, that Hank
wanted you to kiss his ass, and that Hank would reward you?"

John: "Oh no! Karl's got a letter Hank sent him years ago explaining the whole
thing. Here's a copy; see for yourself."

John handed me a photocopy of a handwritten memo on From the desk of Karl
letterhead. There were eleven items listed:

1. Kiss Hank's ass and he'll give you a million dollars when you leave town.
2. Use alcohol in moderation.
3. Kick the shi t out of people who aren't like you.
4. Eat right.
5. Hank dictated this list himself.
6. The moon is made of green cheese.
7. Everything Hank says is right.
8. Wash your hands after going to the bathroom.
9. Don't drink.
10. Eat your wieners on buns, no condiments.
11. Kiss Hank's ass or he'll kick the sh it out of you.

Me: "This appears to be written on Karl's letterhead."

Mary: "Hank didn't have any paper."

Me: "I have a hunch that if we checked we'd find this is actually Karl's
handwriting."

John: "Of course, Hank dictated it."

Me: "I thought you said no one gets to see Hank?"

Mary: "Not now, but years ago he would talk to some people."

Me: "I thought you said he was a philanthropist. What sort of philanthropist
kicks the s hit out of people just because they're different?"

Mary: "It's what Hank wants, and Hank's always right."

Me: "How do you figure that?"

Mary: "Item 7 says, 'Everything Hanks says is right.' That's good enough for
me!"

Me: "Maybe your friend Karl just made the whole thing up."

John: "No way! Item 5 says, 'Hank dictated this list himself.' Besides, item
2 says, 'Use alcohol in moderation,' item 4 says, 'Eat right,' and item 8 says,
'Wash your hands after going to the bathroom.' Everyone knows those things are
right, so the rest must be true, too."

Me: "But 9 says, 'Don't Drink,' which doesn't quite go with item 2, and 6 says,
'The moon is made of green cheese,' which is just plain wrong."

John: "There's no contradiction between 9 and 2, 9 just clarifies 2. As far
as 6 goes, you've never been to the moon, so you can't say for sure."

Me: "Scientists have pretty firmly established that the moon is made of
rock...."

Mary: "But they don't know if the rock came from the Earth, or from out of
space, so it could just as easily be green cheese."

Me: "I'm not really an expert, but I think the theory that the moon came from
the Earth has been discounted. Besides, not knowing where the rock came from
doesn't make it cheese."

John: "Aha! You just admitted that scientists make mistakes, but we know Hank
is always right!"

Me: "We do?"

Mary: "Of course we do, Item 5 says so."

Me: "You're saying Hank's always right because the list says so, the list is
right because Hank dictated it, and we know that Hank dictated it because the
list says so. That's circular logic, no different than saying, 'Hank's right
because he says he's right.'"

John: "Now you're getting it! It's so rewarding to see someone come around to
Hank's way of thinking."

Me: "But.... oh, never mind. What's the deal with wieners?"

Mary blushes. John says: "Wieners, in buns, no condiments. It's Hank's way.
Anything else is wrong."

Me: "What if I don't have a bun?"

John: "No bun, no wiener. A wiener without a bun is wrong."

Me: "No relish? No Mustard?"

Mary looks positively stricken. John shouts: "There's no need for such
language! Condiments of any kind are wrong!"

Me: "So a big pile of sauerkraut with some wieners chopped up in it would be
out of the question?"

Mary sticks her fingers in her ears: "I am not listening to this. La la la, la
la, la la la."

John: "That's disgusting. Only some sort of evil deviant would eat that...."

Me: "It's good! I eat it all the time."

Mary faints. John catches her: "Well, if I'd known you were one of those I
wouldn't have wasted my time. When Hank kicks the s hit out of you, I'll be
there, counting my money and laughing. I'll kiss Hank's ass for you, you
bunless cut-wienered kraut-eater."

With this, John dragged Mary to their waiting car, and sped off.


 

Mill

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Originally posted by: Cancer12
thats clever

It would be clever, but it is filled with so many generalizations and fundamentalist crack-pot ideas it isn't clever at all. Anyone can generalize and just use fundamentalist of a certain group to make the whole group's message look skewed. It is propaganda and we humans have been doing it since the beginning of time.

You always wonder why the liberals get so pissed if conservatives post what the liberal fundamentalists say? I don't. Fundamentalists of both side stink. Each group using the fundamentalist side of each other only leads to less compromise and bitter feuds.
 

Rainsford

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I think this joke rips on Christians more than atheists. Think about it, the bear says a few words and then kills the guy anyways. Reminds me of a few Christians I know, they go about their lives acting like jerks and doing whatever they want, but they say grace and go to church and it's all good. I like the joke in that respect.

Note: I am not saying most Christians are like that, but some of them are.
 

Nefrodite

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some more old jokes in the spirit of tm37s thread. but atleast these are funny as they are distasteful.

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Q: Why are black people so quick?





























A: They spend the first 9 months of their lives dodging coathangers!












whats the difference between indians and buffalo?

















about 30 pounds and a casino jacket



Q: How do you starve Hispanics?



































A: Hide their food stamps under their work boots!


Q: What's Bin Ladens favorite drink


















A: Manhattann on the rocks


Q: How was copper wire invented?






























A: Two Jews fighting over a penny!


How do you stop a mexican from drowning?







Take your foot off his head.
















A: They spend the first 9 months of their lives dodging coathangers!



Q: Why did Helen Keller have to masturbate with one hand?

































A: She moaned with the other!


whats the difference between a pizza and a jew?
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bout 15 minutes

whats the difference between a jew and a piece of bread?
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the bread doesnt cry when it goes in the oven



Q: How many Jews from a concentration camp can you fit in a BMW 328?


















A: 2 in the front, 4 in the back, and another 12 in the ashtray!


why doesnt mexico have an olympic team?












anyone who can run, jump, or swim is already here



Why do jewish people have such big noses?






















Because air is free.

: What do you say to a black man in a suit?






















A: Will the defendant please rise.


Q: What's black, yellow, and hilarious to watch?

























A: A busload of black people going over a cliff!

What's the difference between black poon and a bowling ball?















You'd eat the bowling ball if you had to.


Q: What's it called when you see an Italian driving a new Cadillac?





























A: Grand Theft Auto

Q: What do you call 10,000 blacks skydving at the same time?



































A: Night


how come italians dont have freckles?


cause it slides off their faces



how do you keep and italian off your front yard?



put the garbage in the backyard

Q: How do you stop a black guy from drowning?




































A: take your foot off his head

why do mexicans drive lowriders?


its easier to pick to tomatoes.



why do pedophiles like halloween?



free delivery.


what do you get when you cross a mexican and a pollack?



a gang banger who sprays paints chain link fences


How did the baby fall out of the tree?





I shot it with my 12-gauge semi-automatic rifle.


How do you turn a baby into a cat?






Freeze it solid, then run it through a bandsaw... Meeow!


Q: Why did the Mexicans only have 5000 troops at the Battle of the Alamo?

























A: They only had 7 pickup trucks



A woman is lying in a bed in a hospital after recently giving birth and her new born baby is asleep in the cradle beside her when the doctor walks into the room. The doctor picks up the baby, throws it in the air - letting it land on the floor. He picks it up again and throws it against the walls a couple of times before drop-kicking it out the window.

"My baby, My baby" The woman screamed with horror. "You killed my baby!".

To which the doctor replied. "Ha ha, April fools it was already dead!


A guy and a girl are having sex, and the girl says: "Don't you think it was presumptuous of you to think you could sleep with me on the first date?" The man responds: "Don't you think 'presumptuous' is kind of a big word for a second grader?"



A little girl is standing by the edge of a cliff crying her eyes out.
A man comes over and says, "What's wrong little girl?"

The little girl still crying just points over to the edge of the cliff.
The man looks over the edge and sees a car with the little girl's parents mangled n the rocks below.

The man turns round, unzips his fly and says, "I guess it just ain't your lucky day!"


whats the difference between martin luther king day and st. pattys day?















everyone wants to be irish on st. pattys


A man goes into a pharmacy. He says to the druggist: "I need some birth control for my eleven-year-old daughter."
"Is your little girl sexually active?" asks the druggist.
"Nah, she just lays there like her mother."

whats the best part about being a child molestor?















her tiny hands make your cock look huge


Q. Why are there only two pallbearers at an Indians funeral?






















A. A trash can only has two handles
young girl goes to her father and says: "Dad, can I go to the prom?"
He leers at her and says: "Sure, but you have to suck my dick first."

Well, the girl really wants to go to the prom, so reluctantly she pulls down his zipper and begins sucking. After a while, she looks up at him and says: "Dad, you're dick tastes like shit!"
He says, "I know. Your brother wanted to go too!"


What's the difference between a jesus on the cross, and a picture of jesus?










It only takes one nail to hang a picture.

Q: Why don't black guys drive pickup trucks?
























A: They can see over the hood

Mommy, Mommy! What's a lesbian?
Go ask Daddy, she'll know.



whats the difference between a cop car and a cactus


on a cactus the pricks on the outside

redneck and a mexican are riding in the backseat of a car, whos driving?




the cop



what do you call an annorexic with a yeast infection?



a 1/4 pounder with cheese

A womans in a coma and the on duty nurse is giving her a sponge bath. Everytime she touches her privates with the sponge the heart rate monitor bleeps. So the nurse get excited and heads out into the lobby to get her husband. The nurse tells the husband that everytime she touches her privates, the monitor registers that she feels it. She suggests that he go in and give her oral sex. So he closes the door and goes inside...10 minutes later the nurse sees the womans heartrate has gone flat. She runs in and asks the husband what happened and if he performed oral sex.

He says "yeah I DID but i think she choked"

Q. What's the definition of gross?
A. Licking the sweat off your grandpa's back as you f*ck him in the ass.


Q: Why does Mike Tyson cry during sex?
A: Mace

A kid comes home from college and is talking to his dad.

"Dad, I think my roommate's a lovely human"

"What makes you think that, son?" the dad replies.

"Well, dad, when I'm sucking his cock, it tastes like sh&t!"

Q: What did the maxi pad say to the fart?
A: You are the wind beneath my wings.


Q: What's soft and warm when you go to bed, but hard and stiff when you wake up?
A: Vomit.

Q. What goes: "CLICK - is that it? CLICK - is that it? CLICK - is that it?"
A. A blind person with a Rubik's cube.


What did the little nazi kid get for x-mas?




gi joe and a EZ bake oven
When Mr. O'Leary died, an elaborate wake was planned. In preparation, Mrs. O'Leary called the undertaker aside for a private little talk.
"Please be sure to secure his toupee to his head very securely. No one but I knew he was bald," she confided, "and he'd never rest in peace if anyone found out at this point. Our friends from the old country are sure to hold his hands and touch his head before they're through paying their last respects."
"Rest assured, Mrs. O'Leary," comforted the under- taker. "I'll fix it so that toupee will never come off."
Sure enough, the day of the wake the old timers were giving O'Leary's ancient corpse quite a going over, but the toupee stayed firmly in place. At the end of the day, a delighted Mrs. O'Leary offered the undertaker an extra hundred dollars for handling the matter so professionally.

"Oh, I couldn't possibly accept your money," protested the undertaker. "What's a few nails?"



Where do white babies go when they die?

Heaven.

What do they get when they get there?

Wings.

What do you call it?

An Angel.

Where do black babies go when they die?

Heaven.

What do they get when they get there?

Wings.

What do you call that?




















A bat.

A black family, a white family and a puerto rican family live in a 3 family house. The house burns donw at 2pm, who survives and why?





The white family because they were at work.


There once was a very rich Texan, who had an almost overwhelming fear of elephants. Not a single night would go by where he didn't have a nightmare where he was stampeded by elephants.

He finally decided that the only way to overcome this fear was to travel to africa and kill an elephant.

He traveled to africa, and quickly hired a Safari guide, a White hunter. The white hunter had many natives working for him, who would gut and cook the day's kills, clean the guns, and distract the animals when necessary.

On the hunt for the elephant, the texan finally had an Elephant in range, when Mutumbo, one of the white hunter's loyal companions made a huge ruckus to distract the elephant and give the texan a clear shot. The texan moves his sights from the elephant to Mutumbo and fired, instantly killing him.

The whit hunter said "Why on earth did you do that? Mutumbo has been working for me for 15 years, and is my friend."

The texan said "Well, if there is anything I hate more than an elephant, it's a big, black, noisy great person."






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Humour is generally defined as an emotional,mental or aesthetic aspect of a thing,person or even event that excites pleasant and joyous attitudes and feelings and produces mirthful laughter,smiling and similar observable responses of amusement. Analysed from a behaviourial or social perspective the fundamental components are four aspects which are interactional and intertwining. Firstly there is a STIMULUS, whose properties are identified as funny and therefore produce the second component of RESPONSE. Which may be expressive or reactive involving the saying of something witty or of laughter. Intervening between the stimulus and the response is the third aspect. A complex set of variables such as personality traits,one's taste and mind sets, MEDIATING the stimulus and response. Finally there is the CONSEQUENCE or effect of this process. In conditioning terms, a learned response increases in strength or frequency if it is followed by a positive consequence - that is,if it is positively reinforced.

Also important is the context,social setting,or situation in which this process is played out. The CONTEXT,which functions as a stimulus or as an enhancement of a stimulus,includes climate of joyousness,a facilitative surround of other people laughing, a condition of playfulness or ludicrousness. As in the case of the joke about the two Jews facing the firing squad,these contextual factors may be operating even when the individual is besieged by underlying sorrow.

Now what is there about the stimulus that renders it not only funny but also uniquely Jewish? The structure of the stimulus - whether it be in the form of a pun, joke, oneliner, "shtick" or whatever - must contain incongruity,a sudden twist or juxtaposition of unexpected elements:

"What does your wife make for dinner?"
"Reservations."

That's funny,but it's not necessarily Jewish. What will make it Jewish is the content,the use of accents and names that are obviously Jewish,and the reference to typical or stereotypical Jewish culture,ritual,ethnicity,and either secular or religious identity.

"What does your wife make for dinner?"
Reservations."

"Have you heard of that new Jewish wine?"
(Whining) "I want a mink coat."

Whether this joke is virulently anti-semitic or harmlessly cute depends on a number of factors,including who is telling it (Jew or Gentile,male or female), what is the intention or motive of the teller (since intention is not easy to determine,partly because it is buried in the intervening personality and taste components,we cannot be sure if it is hostile or not),and the precise nature of the context (among Jewish friends or non Jewish strangers,in an atmosphere of joy and playfulness or hate and anger). In the illustrations provided below,we can only speculate about the intentions of the humour makers. Although it appears to those Jewish individuals who conducted studies on humorous material that there was a correlation between it and the rise or triggering of anti-Semitism,we cannot be sure and should be careful not to jump to unwarranted conclusions.