Passover humor

[Seth Austen <klezmusic...>]

This showed up on another list, had to forward it.

Best wishes to all for a sweet pesach.

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And the Queen in a small European principality was bestowing knighthood
upon men who had in some way helped her or her country.  The men all
knelt
before her, and participated in a ceremony so old that its words had
degenerated into meaningless syllables.  The Queen would touch her sword
to the shoulder of a man, say "I knight thee Sir William Thompson; Holla
Rolla Wolla Bolla!"  Sir William would answer "Holla Rolla Wolla Bolla,"
and the Queen moved on to the next kneeling man.  When she came to one
man, new to the country and unaccustomed to its traditions, she said "I
knight thee Sir Hymie Ginsberg, Holla Rolla Wolla Bolla."  The new
knight
in his stage fright could not remember the nonsense words, and blurted
out
the first ritual words that came to his mind: "Ma nishtana halailah
hazeh
michol hallelos?"  The Queen turned to a courtier, and pointing to this
new nobleman, said "Why is this knight different from all other
knights?"


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