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echo: fidonews
to: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
from: BOB ACKLEY
date: 2019-01-28 16:07:00
subject: Racists

> Hello Lee,
> 
> On Saturday January 26 2019 00:30, you wrote to All:
> 
>  >> Or if I asked for a kosher hot dog would you ask me if I was 
Jewish? Or
>  >> if I had asked for a Taco, would you ask if I was Mexican? Or if I
>  >> asked for some Whiskey, would you ask if I was Irish?" The clerk 
says,
>  >> "No, I probably wouldn't." The guy says, "Well then, because I 
asked
>  >> for Polish sausage, why did you ask me if I'm Polish?" The clerk
>  >> replied, "Because you're in Home Depot."
> 
> The problem with jokes in so called "international echos" is that jokes 
seldom
> make it across a language and cultural barrier.
> 
> I for one, don't get it. ....

Home Depot is a chain of home improvement stores/lumberyards, one 
wouldn't be looking for food in a lumberyard.  The post sounds 
suspiciously like an old routine of Lewis Grizzard's.  Grizzard was a 
humorist and made several records of his stories.
                                                                                                       

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