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muchabstracted ([personal profile] muchabstracted) wrote2008-06-12 10:58 pm
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On the wall of a school I visit for work:

"IF YOU CHASE TWO RABBI
BOTH WILL ESCAPE."

[identity profile] shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com 2008-06-13 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Wow. Maybe you should donate the missing two letters as a charitable thing.

[identity profile] muchabstracted.livejournal.com 2008-06-13 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
...

I can't believe that works as well as it does.

[identity profile] dushai.livejournal.com 2008-06-14 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
I was half-suspecting that [livejournal.com profile] shirei_shibolim was offering up a straight line!

[identity profile] muchabstracted.livejournal.com 2008-06-14 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
I am torn between replying that it would not be unlike him, and replying that he would have made the pun himself had it occurred to him. *looks inquiringly at [livejournal.com profile] shirei_shibolim*

[identity profile] fleurdelis28.livejournal.com 2008-06-13 12:27 pm (UTC)(link)
That assumes that it is, in fact, a typo.

[identity profile] shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com 2008-06-13 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Wouldn't they have pluralized "rabbi" if not?

[identity profile] fleurdelis28.livejournal.com 2008-06-13 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Only if they were grammatical.

[identity profile] muchabstracted.livejournal.com 2008-06-13 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha. Good point.

[identity profile] muchabstracted.livejournal.com 2008-06-13 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, it is!

[identity profile] muchabstracted.livejournal.com 2008-06-13 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
It makes my day whenever I see it. So that's a charity of sorts!