July 12, 2002

The Scholar Who Found a Life's Work in Dirty Jokes

By MIKITA BROTTMAN

A man goes to his rabbi and says he wants to divorce his wife because she has such filthy habits.

"What are these habits?" asks the rabbi.

"Oh, I can't tell you," says the man. "It's too filthy to describe."

The rabbi refuses, without hearing more information, to grant the man the divorce.

"Well, if I must, I must," says the man. "Every time I go to relieve myself in the sink, it's always full of dirty dishes."

An innocent joke? According to Gershon Legman