[lbo-talk] Mahathir: Jews rule the world

kjkhoo at softhome.net kjkhoo at softhome.net
Mon Oct 20 09:02:56 PDT 2003


At 8:28 PM +0800 20/10/03, Grant Lee wrote:
>[A Malay joke about Mahathir, George Soros and the unfortunate Anwar
>Ibrahim.]

A Malaysian joke -- the joke is in English and only works in English -- not Malay which refers to a language and an ethnic group.

There used to be plenty of such jokes -- incl variants of global ones such as the joke about world leaders going before god; the Malaysian one has all other world leaders coming out crying, except Mahathir who, when asked what happened, replies: "God cried".

kjk



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