Dragaera

[OT]Re: Sword Jokes.

Davdi Silverrock davdisil at gmail.com
Mon May 15 12:29:16 PDT 2006

On 5/15/06, Jon_Lincicum at stream.com <Jon_Lincicum at stream.com> wrote:

> >Hmmm.   How about a couple of prejudiced jokes - where the race of the
> >person telling the joke is important?   Don't pick a house picked on by
> >all, so much as rival houses.
>
>
> Jhereg telling joke to another Jhereg:
>

In /Yendi/, the sword jokes are mentioned as being told between Vlad
and his secretary (Melestav, I think).  I'd bet a cookie that it was
Vlad who told the anti-Easterner joke ("Four: one to hold the sword
and three to move the grindstone."), since prejudical humor is less
offensive if the one telling the joke is of the ethnicity that the
joke is about.