Ethnic Jokes
by Mary W Maxwell, PhD, LLB

So what’s this all about? I've just posted an article at GumshoeNews.com, calling for Angela Merkel to stick up for Germany instead of Syria. My article, which is linked at the bottom of this page, says Political Correctness has gone too far.

There’s nothing wrong with telling ethnic jokes, is there? The following ones (and way worse) are on the Internet. Have a laugh!

An Irishman was on trial for armed robbery. The jury foreman came out and announced, "Not guilty."
"That's grand!" he shouted. "Does that mean I can keep the money?"

The Jewish mother gave her son two neckties for his birthday, a blue one and a grey one. The next day he wore the grey one. His mother, looking hurt, said “You don’t like the blue tie I gave you?”

The Scotsman’s wife Louise died. He did not want to pay much for the notice in the paper so he wrote “Louise died.” The newspaper secretary called him to say “We have a five word minimum.” So he wrote “Louise died. Toyota for sale.”

Three men took a ride in an air balloon – a Chinese guy, a Mexican, and an American. A problem developed and they had to throw some of their stuff overboard. The Chinese guy threw rice out. He said “We have plenty of that on my country.” The Mexican said “I’m getting rid of these beans. We have too much of it in my country.” The American threw the Mexican overboard.

Q. Why can’t Stevie Wonder read?

A. Cuz he’s black.

Q. Where can you find 60 million French jokes?
A. In France.

Q. How to you get rid of aristocratic Germans?
A. Von by Von.

What is a Jewish Santa Claus? He comes down the chimney and asks “Do you want to buy some presents, Children?”

A Chinese man walks into a bar in America late one night and he sees Steven Spielberg. As he was a great fan of his movies, he rushes over to him, and asks for his autograph. Instead, Spielberg gives him a slap and says, "You Chinese people bombed our Pearl Harbor, get outta here!"
The astonished Chinese man replied, "It was not the Chinese who bombed your Pearl Harbor, it was the Japanese! "Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese you're all the same," replied Spielberg.
In return, the Chinese man gives Spielberg a slap and says, "You sank the Titanic, my forefathers were on that ship." Shocked, Spielberg replies, "It was the iceberg that sank the ship, not me!"
The Chinese man, replies, "Iceberg, Spielberg, Carsberg, you're all the same!"

Paddy comes home and sees a letter on the doormat. The envelope says DO NOT BEND. So he spends the next two hours trying to figure out how to pick it up.

(Irish jokes sometimes require a second or third read.)

Speaking of Irish jokes, here’s me talking about the impossibility of “International law.”

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