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Monday, May 20, 2013
A Joke to Start the Week: "Social Security"
It's Monday, and you know what that means. Another week, another joke. This one also comes from the files of Old Jews Telling Jokes. Today's joke teller is Sara Ross, a 66-year-old retired CPA.
After telling the joke, she explains that her mother, a Holocaust survivor, could never tell a joke. But she went to the Catskills and picked up this one which she retold perfectly and taught it to her daughter, who tells it now as a tribute to her mother.
Here's the setup: Her husband turns 65 years old and wants to go to the Social Security office, but he can't find his birth certificate. But he goes anyway, and then...
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Well told with the ending aside being especially moving.
ReplyDeleteI love her tribute to her Mom---- Good for her! thanks, Al......M.A.
ReplyDeleteExactly what I look for in a Joke/Humor site. Thanks
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