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.