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From: larrabee@decwrl.DEC.COM (Tracy Larrabee)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Generic Ethnic Joke--offensive only to generics
Message-ID: <875@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Date: Sun, 2-Feb-86 19:12:41 EST
Article-I.D.: decwrl.875
Posted: Sun Feb  2 19:12:41 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Feb-86 03:18:18 EST
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Palo Alto, CA
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Having received permission from the my friend to post his well known 
(in these parts) GENERIC ETHNIC JOKE, I submit it for your enjoyment.

I admit that the people who enjoy it most all seem to have slightly
out-of-kilter senses of humor (I am one such).
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Three people of easily identifiable (and well known) ethnic groups get
stuck in a conflict situation and it soon becomes clear to both them
(and the listener) that one of them is going to have to do something 
difficult (or unpleasant) to extricate themselves from the situation.

The first one tries--and fails--and fails in a way that is 
*typical* of his ethnic group.  So the second one tries--and fails--
and fails in a way that is analogously *TYPICAL* of his ethnic group.
So the third one tries--and fails--in a way that although TYPICAL
of his ethnic group...

is not analogous.
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