burun wrote:Colonel Panic wrote:When I was in about 6th grade, there was a girl in my class who said that Jewish people had tails. She truly believed this because her grandmother had told it to her and she knew her dear old gramma would never lie.
Up to that point in her life, she had never knowingly met a Jewish person.
I had a college roommate who asked me where my horns were.
I thought she was joking, so I told her that I had them surgically removed several years earlier.
She nodded, knowingly, and said "That must have hurt."
I had never knowingly met a Jewish person almost up to the point of college, and I thought that they must be the most barbaric people on earth. Somehow I'd gotten it into my head that Jewish males were circumcised at their bar mitzvah. How this could be legal in the good ole U.S. of A. was totally beyond me.
One time when I was seventeen or eighteen, I was riding around with my pals Rat and Bill Murphy. Rat is well-read and verbose, but Bill is not the sharpest peanut in the turd by a long shot. At 40, he still sleeps on a couch in his parents' house and is so frugal that he is reputed to have hundreds of thousands of dollars squirreled away from the factory job he's been working for decades.
Anyway, we were riding around listening to Leonard Cohen, and it made me think of this new young punkette on the scene that Rat had his eye on. "Hey," I said, "isn't that chick you're into named Debbie Cohen? I wonder if she's related to Leonard Cohen."
Rat gave me a dismissive look and said, "Ralph, Cohen is probably the most common Jewish name. It's like Smith or Jones."
"For real?" Bill shouted from the back seat. "Cohen is the most common Jewish name? I thought Hymie was . . ."
Sadly, he was not joking.
