From atgilman@io.com Fri Oct 31 15:23:10 1997 X-Authentication-Warning: pentagon.io.com: atgilman owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 20:22:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Anne T Gilman To: jcb@MIT.EDU Subject: Fw: JOKES: 400 Foreskins for the Pretty One... (fwd) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 10:07:57 +0100 From: Roger D Spackman To: Stepeh P Spackman , Ian Spackman , Chuck Groening , Anne T Gilman Subject: Fw: JOKES: 400 Foreskins for the Pretty One... ---------- > From: Mark Feit > To: mfeit+yuks@UU.NET > Subject: JOKES: 400 Foreskins for the Pretty One... > Date: Tuesday, May 13, 1997 16:10 > > Forwarded-by: "Harry I. Rubin" > Forwarded-by: larson@socrates.berkeley.edu > Forwarded-by: Gali > Forwarded-by: Harvey Tannenbaum > > Newsgroups: israel.lists.il-ads > > The Top 15 Biblical Ways to Acquire a Wife > > Find an attractive prisoner of war, bring her home, shave her head, > trim her nails, and give her new clothes. Then she's yours. > -- Deuteronomy (Deuteronomy 21:11-13) > > Find a prostitute and marry her. > -- Hosea (Hosea 1:1-3) > > Find a man with seven daughters, and impress him by watering his > flock. > -- Moses (Exodus 2:16-21) > > Purchase a piece of property, and get a woman as part of the deal. > -- Boaz (Ruth 4:5-10) > > Go to a party and hide. When the women come out to dance, grab one > and carry her off to be your wife. > -- Benjaminites (Judges 21:19-25) > > Have God create a wife for you while you sleep. Note: this will > cost you a rib. > -- Adam (Genesis 2:19-24) > > Agree to work seven years in exchange for a woman's hand in marriage. Get > tricked into marrying the wrong woman. Then work another seven years for > the woman you wanted to marry in the first place. That's right. Fourteen > years of toil for a woman. > -- Jacob (Genesis 29:15-30) > > Cut off 200 foreskins off of your future father-in-law's enemies and > get his daughter for a wife. > -- David (I Samuel 18:27) > > Even if no one is out there, just wander around a bit and you'll > definitely find someone. (It's all relative of course.) > -- Cain (Genesis 4:16-17) > > Become the emperor of a huge nation and hold a beauty contest. > -- Xerxes or Ahasuerus (Esther 2:3-4) > > When you see someone you like, go home and tell your parents, "I > have seen a ... woman; now get her for me." If your parents question > your decision, simply say, "Get her for me. She's the one for me." > -- Samson (Judges 14:1-3) > > Kill any husband and take HIS wife. (Prepare to lose four sons > though). > -- David (2 Samuel 11) > > Wait for your brother to die. Take his widow. (It's not just a > good idea, it's the law). > -- Onan and Boaz (Deuteronomy or Leviticus, example in Ruth) > > Don't be so picky. Make up for quality with quantity. > -- Solomon (1 Kings 11:1-3) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe to jokes, send mail to majordomo@datasoft.on.ca with > the test "unsubscribe jokes" in the message body. > Check ftp://ftp.datasoft.on.ca/pub/lists for archives of this list. -----------------------------------------------------------------