Trivia, Humor & Satire

Satire: The Canine Convention

I have been busy organizing this week’s Zoom convention for the DEMs (Dogs Elect Mensch).  From my earliest columns I have expressed my distrust for the Golden Deceiver, a man with the temperament of a Tasmanian devil and the intelligence of an invertebrate.  How could he empathize with the plight of people when he never has owned one of man’s best friends? Dogs always understood the real meaning of MAGA, Make America Growl Again. [Satire by Elona Baron as told to Laurie Baron, Ph.D]

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Learning about farming and sex in the Catskills

Across the road from the colony was “Louis Cohen’s dairy farm.” The only way to tell he was Jewish was the name. He didn’t look Jewish! Louis had a raw bone, muscular body, honed by years of hard farm work. His voice didn’t sound Jewish. He was quiet and soft spoken, a rarity in my heritage, Jewish farmers in America were as rare then as underpaid professional athletes are today. Louie had a fine herd of milking cows grazing in a flat pasture that became my playground. It was great adventure to overturn hard, white granite rocks speckled with black syinite specks and find one or more garter snakes wiggling angrily at being discovered. The rock homes sheltered the reptiles from the hot sun’s rays. I always searched with my head down, carefully avoiding the innumerable “cow paddies.” [Ira Spector]

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Jewish History, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA

Those dang fish must be prejudiced!

It has been a constant sense of amazement to both my Christian wives, how quickly I can pack a suitcase when we leave on a trip. The spouses would begin packing a week or more before we set out. I never pack until the last few minutes before going out the door. There is a simple explanation, consider the history of my Jewish ancestors, and you can see why. For the last two thousand years, we have always been ready to leave town at a moment’s notice. With that in mind, it is easy to understand when I exclaim: “A Jew can spot anti-Semitism earlier and from more subtle sources than any other person.” We can pick them out in a sold Super Bowl football game, or smell one in a tropical jungle. I personally discovered a previously unknown, festering group, during a four-month road trip my wife Carole and I took around the U.S.A. when we first retired. [Ira Spector]

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Sports & Competitions, Travel and Food, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Jewish trivia quiz: Congressman Yoho

Congressman Yoho traveled to Israel in 2013, where he met with many Israeli political, military and civilian leaders, but also with Saeb Erekat, the chief negotiator for the Palestinian Authority. Yoho found the trip to be very educational, as he noted “It’s always fascinated me how screwed up that whole region is.” After returning from his trip, Yoho told a Gainesville Sun reporter that Erekat conceded Israel’s right to exist, but rejected that it should be populated by Jewish people. Noting that such a position undermined any real chance of peace negotiations, Yoho then said what? (Mark D. Zimmerman)

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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA