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My icon

Okay, I believe there has been some dispute as to why I have a picture of an elderly bespectacled woman in my icon.  Her name is Sophie Petrillo and she's a character from the hit sitcom The Golden Girls.  I happen to like that show (it's my guilty pleasure) and she's my favorite "golden girl" from that show, which is why I assigned her as my icon.  Plus, it's unique.  I can't tell you how many TV.com users I've met who have that DBZ character's icon.  ( I don't know his name)  That and the standard Howdy Doody one.  That one gives me the willies.

Chinese Jews

Two Jewish men are sitting at a booth at a Chinese restaurant.  One man asks the other, "Boris, do you suppose there are any Jews in China?"

"I'm not sure," his friend replies.  "Try asking the waiter.  Maybe he knows."

As the waiter brings them their meals, the man asks, "Excuse me, but do you know if there are any Chinese Jews?"

"Ah, I don't know, sir.  Let me ask," the waiter says.  He disappears to the back only to return several minutes later.  "No, sir.  No Chinese Jews"

"That's odd.  Are you sure?" says the Jewish man.

"I will double-check then," the waiter assures him.  He goes back into the kitchen and returns with the same answer.  "I'm terribly sorry, sir.  Still no Chinese Jews."

"I find that hard to believe," chimes in the other Jewish man.  "Our people have scattered to the four corners of the earth over the years and you mean to tell me that there are no Chinese Jews?"

"I have already asked everybody who works here," the waiter says, exasperated.  "We have apple Jews, orange Jews, tomato Jews, and pineapple juice, but no Chinese Jews.