MONA LISA'S JEWISH MOTHER:
       "After all the money your father and I spent on braces, this
       you call a smile?"

       CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS' JEWISH MOTHER:
       "I don't care what you've discovered, you didn't call, you
       didn't write."

       MICHELANGELO'S JEWISH MOTHER:
       "A ceiling you paint? Not good enough for you the walls, like
       the other children? Do you know how hard it is to get that
       schmutz off the ceiling?"

       NAPOLEON'S JEWISH MOTHER:
       "You're not hiding your report card? Show me! Take your hand
       out of your jacket and show me!"

       ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S JEWISH MOTHER:
       "Again with that hat! Why can't you wear a baseball cap like
       the other kids?"

       GEORGE WASHINGTON'S JEWISH MOTHER:
       "Next time I catch you throwing money across the Potomac, you
       can kiss your allowance good-bye!"
      
       THOMAS EDISON'S JEWISH MOTHER:
       "Okay, so I'm proud that you invented the electric light
       bulb. Now turn it off already and go to sleep!"

       PAUL REVERE'S JEWISH MOTHER:
       "I don't care where you think you have to go, young man,
       midnight is long past your bedtime!"
      
       ALBERT EINSTEIN'S JEWISH MOTHER:
       "Your senior photograph and you couldn't have done something
       with your hair?"
      
       MOSES' JEWISH MOTHER:
       "Desert, schmesert!! Where have you really been for the last
       forty years?"

       BILL GATES' JEWISH MOTHER:
       "It would have killed you to become a doctor?"
            
       BILL CLINTON'S JEWISH MOTHER:
       "Well, at least she was a nice Jewish girl, that Monica!"

Dave Oesterreich