targets of ethnic jokes

[Dennis R. Preston]

>T-shirts are too ubiquitous. I much prefer

Q. How do you tell the bride at a [insert group] wedding?

A: She's the one in a sequined bowling shirt.

dInIs



>The Italian jokes of my downstate NY youth were Polish jokes upstate; when I
>came to Ohio they became WV jokes and on my Fulbright to Germany they
>transmuted into Fries jokes.  Friesland (Frisia) is the narrow coastal strip
>of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark that borders the North Sea. In
>Toulouse on a subsequent exchange I was told the French looked down on the
>Belgians but I heard no jokes at their expense.
>
>Ex:   Q: "How do you tell the bride at a [insert ethnic group here] wedding?
>A: She's the one with the clean T-shirt."
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>"Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber Boshaft ist er nicht"
>--Albert Einstein

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Dennis R. Preston
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Languages
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Michigan State University
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