[ST] How the academic world sees bikers...

[Marc Danziger <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Professor Norm Geras sends me the following chestnut:


A biker stopped by the local Harley Shop to have his bike fixed. They 
couldn't do it while he waited, but he lived nearby and and so said he 
would just walk home. On the way home he stopped at the hardware store 
and bought a bucket and an anvil. He stopped by the feed store/livestock 
dealer and picked up a couple of chickens and a goose. However, 
struggling outside the store he now had a problem - how to carry all his 
purchases home.

While he's scratching his head he is approached by a little old lady 
named Mrs Cohen, who says she's lost. 'Can you tell me how to get to 
1603 Mockingbird Lane?'

'Well, as a matter of fact,' the biker says, 'I live at 1616 Mockingbird 
Lane. I would walk you home but I can't carry this lot.'

Mrs Cohen: 'Vy don you put de anvil in the bocket, schlep the bocket mit 
eine hant, put a chicken under each arm and carry de goose in your odder 
hant?'

'Why, thank you very much,' says the biker and he proceeds to walk the 
old girl home.

On the way he says, 'Let's take my short cut and go down this alley. 
We'll be there in no time.'

Mrs Cohen looks him over cautiously and says, 'I am a lonely vidow 
vitout a husband to defend me. How do I know that ven we get in the 
alley you vont hold me up against the vall, pull up my skoirt, and 
rhavish me?'

The biker replies, 'Holy smokes lady! I am carrying a bucket, an anvil, 
two chickens and a goose. How in the world could I possibly hold you up 
against the wall and do that?'

Mrs Cohen: 'Put the goose down, kover him mit de bocket, put the anvil 
on top of de bocket, and I'll hold the chickens.'

(Thanks: Noam Pines.)

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