At the time it seemed entirely necessary

[andrewducker]

An elderly Jewish man wins the national lottery. And as is right and
proper he gives a chunk of it away. He gives 10% to his local synagogue,
10% to his family, 10% to his friends and 10% to the BNP.

And his friends are aghast at this last one. They can't believe this
terrible act. They cut him dead in the street, they won't answer his phone
calls, and they spend all their time talking about the fact that a man who
was otherwise an upright member of the community gave money to a fascist
organisation.

And in the end the local Rabbi goes to talk to him and sort the matter out
once and for all.

"Why would you do this thing?" he says.

"Well, I didn't want to, but there isn't a Nazi party any more and they
were the closest I could find."

"The Nazi party? Have you gone insane? Why would you want to give money to
the Nazi party?"

"I have to. I owe them their share."

"Why on earth do you think you owe them a share of your winnings?"

"Well," replied the man, rolling up his sleeve to reveal a faded tattoo,
"they did give me the numbers."
===

And _that's_ the joke I told to my father and uncle Patrick as we walked
out of Auschwitz.

Comments

[robhu.livejournal.com]

*ouch*

Where I work we have a load of cloned mice that get experimented on... there is a building on site for them at the end dubbed Mauschwitz..

[sterlingspider.livejournal.com]

There was a Mauschwitz at my college too.

It was particularly strange hearing my Jewish friend taking about how he experimented with and euthenized rats and mice at Mauschwitz (he worked in an autism research lab).

:o

[aliiis.livejournal.com]

Woah! I think I'm actually flabbergasted! Cheers for giving me the opportunity to use that word... I think.

[azalemeth.livejournal.com]

I've never been able to laugh at the same time as saying "Oh GODS" before. Thank you for introducing me to this new experience.

What was your dad's reaction?