atw: Re: Some Forwarded Friday Humour, Already.
- From: "Robert Kloiber" <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:40:35 +1100
Oh, the damage a bad translation can do! ;))
Cheers
Robert Kloiber
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On 5/12/2003 at 10:24 AM Michael Edward Granat wrote:
> The Bacon Tree
>
> Back in the wild west, a wagon train was lost and very low on food, and
> they had seen no other people for days.
>
> Unexpectedly, they saw an old Jewish man sitting beneath a tree.
> The leader rushed up to him and said, "We're lost. Is there someplace
> ahead
> where we can get food?" "Vell," the old Jewish man said, "I vould
> definitely NOT go over dat hill. Somevun told me you'll run into a big
> bacon tree." "A bacon tree!!!!?" asked the wagon train leader.
> "Yah, yah ah bacon tree. Trust me. For nutting vud I lie."
>
> The leader goes back and tells his people what the Jewish man had told
> him.
> "So why did he say not to go there?" some pioneers asked.
> "Oh, you know the Jewish folks - they don't eat bacon."
> So the wagon train goes up the hill and down the other side.
>
> About an hour later the leader of the wagon train returns, disheveled
> and
> wounded, to where the old Jewish man is sitting and enjoying his drink.
> The near-dead man starts shouting, "You fool! You sent us to our deaths!
> We followed your instructions, but there was no bacon tree. Just
> hundreds
> of Indians. They killed everyone but me.
>
> The Jewish man holds up his hand and says, "oy, vait a minute, vait a
> minute."
> He gets out an English-Yiddish dictionary and begins thumbing through it
> "Oh mine Gott, I made myself ah big mistake.
> It vuz not a bacon tree.
>
> I mant to say it vuz a ham bush!"
>
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