bjambjam

Out for lunch one day, a group of immagrants were having a fine time until Hymie began to gag.
“I – I think I svallowed a bone” Hymie gasped.
“Hymie” said Miklos, “are you chocking?”
“No, demmit, I’m serious!”

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Shauk

i dont get it.

gar1976

He misunderstood "chocking" (s/b "choking, BTW) for "joking."

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They made pong look like a story driven RPG with a dynamic campaign.

Leto

is this some kind of schtick?

Shauk

yeah i mean even with "choking" (the correct spelling) It still doesn't really make sense to me. some dude is like oh man I think I swallowed a bone, other dude says "oh are you choking?" and then the response is "no, I'm serious" which means, he's not choking, he just swallowed a bone, therefore i'm left going "well whats so funny?

*smacks self in face*

kel

It's an accent joke. Mexican accents conflate J and Ch sounds.

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Shauk

oh...


ok. I get it now..

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Leto

Mexican??? Where did you get Mexican out of that? The names sound Eurpean, almost Jewish or Greek -ish....

Baraka_Guru

A cursory Google search will call up the fact that "Hymie" is a derogatory term for a Jew.


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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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ColonelSpecial

I had a friend named Jaime whose parents were from Mexico. It was pronounced Hymie. J in spanish is pronounced as an h sound. So I think that is what the op is going for.

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Daniel_

Haimie (Chaim) - Hebraic name - anglo equiv. James - span. equiv - 'haime.

It's all the same.

But this is an old east european Jew joke.

It's the same as this one:

Abie and Moishe were driving their car, and they were running low on petrol, so they pulled into a full service petrol station.

The attendent comes out the car and says "juice?"

"So vot if ve are" says Moise "just fill 'er up".

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And deep beneath the rolling waves,
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The Echo of a distant time
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Baraka_Guru

Yeah, and I found that "Miklos" is a Hungarian name. But I'm sure it could be found in other areas, too.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot