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How Classic Yiddish Jokes Play in GA
Oy, am I thirsty.
Sorry, I can’t help you.
Oy, am I thirsty!
I can’t help you. You’re in line to vote.
Oy, am I thirsty!!
Sorry, lady.
But you’re literally holding a large bottle of water.
It’s the law.
But I’m pregnant!
So I’d be breaking the law twice. No can do.
But it’s just a fetus. It can’t vote. It doesn’t even have hands, yet!
Get a clue, lady. Hand development begins at week six. Voter fraud is real.
But I’ve been here for four hours!
Yeah? Well I’ll be in jail for a year. No way, José.
Then can you maybe sell me the water?
Sure thing. Just pay me 1K to cover the fine they’re gonna hit me with. I take Venmo.
Look, pal. Here’s how this is supposed to go down. You give me the water and then I exemplify the comical irony of Jewish humor by exclaiming, “Oy, was I thirsty!” See, because the point of the whole thing was never the thirst at all, but the obsessive expression of suffering.
I see.
But I really am thirsty.
I’m sorry to hear it.
Oy, am I thirsty!