I love Tom Lehrer's songs, poetry and rhyme like the posters above too and have done so ever since I heard my first Tom Lehrer song Vatican Rag. So in the spirit of that song I thought I'd pass on one of my favourite ecumenical jokes along with a couple of afterthoughts that are also loosley in the tradition of Toms humour.

> A rabbi and a Catholic priest are having lunch in a restaurant. The priest's food arrives, a scrumptious-looking ham entrée. The priest attacks his lunch, savouring every bite of the ham. Noticing the rabbi eyeing him, he asks, "So tell me, Rabbi Goldblum, have you ever had any pork before?" The rabbi hesitates. "Well, it's not for me to say..." The priest pushes on. "Oh, c'mon, Rabbi. We're both men of God here. We can tell each other our sins. Nothing to it." "Umm... well, yes, as a matter of fact, I did have pork once." Smugly the priest teases him, "And a fine meat it was, wasn't it? Heheh." "Yeah, I'll say." A few moments pass. The rabbi asks the priest: "Tell me Father, have you ever had sex with a woman before?" "Why of course... well, before I took holy orders, that is." The rabbi smirks, "Sure beat the taste of pork, didn't it?"

or

> A boy comes home from school and tells his mother he got a part in the school play. "That's wonderful!" says the mother, "Which part?" "The part of a Jewish husband," says the boy, proudly. Frowning, the mother says, "Go back and tell them you want a speaking role!"

or

> Is one Nobel Prize so much to ask from a child after all I've done?

or

> "Sarah, how's that boy of yours?"
    "David? Ach, don't ask - he's living in Hawaii with a man named Miguel"
    "That's terrible!"
    "I know - why couldn't he find a nice Jewish boy?

Cheers,

Andrez