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Jun 24 05: riddle time!
Q. What do you call a bad actor with an all-wool toupée?
A. William Shatnes.
Bwah-ha-ha-ha! I am so proud of this joke, and there are, like, three people who are going to get it. I don’t care.
EDITED: D’oh. Okay, I got it backwards. Back when I first learned about shatnes, I assumed it was analogous to kosher, i.e. that it meant that you were square with the don’t-mix-your-fibers law. But no! It’s actually analogous to treyf. The shatnes, it is bad. So I really should have written this as:
Q. What do you call a bad actor with a wool-and-linen toupée?
A. William Shatnes.
There. I’m sure that many of you who didn’t get it the first time will appreciate the hilarity now. Pardon my goyische ignorance.
Commentary
Nothing like some good Yiddish humor!
posted by Peter Sacks, Jun 30 05 5:23 PM
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