It's all Greek to me. G — No more bewildered than usual.
> On Mar 30, 2018, at 1:07 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I got this from a friend on facebook... > > If I only shared the Russian version below, the joke would only be accessible > to a small fraction of my friends; with my loose translation, hopefully it’s > accessible to a fraction more :) have a good chuckle, and a good day! > *** > Bill Gates announced a contest for a vacant spot of CEO at > “Microsoft-Europe”. 5000 people showed up for the interview in a huge hall. > Among the attendees, there was Moris Cohen, a Sephardic Jew from Paris. > > Bill Gates warmly thanked the attendees, then asked everyone who didn’t know > Java to leave the room. 2000 people got up and left. Moris Cohen thought, “I > don’t know Java, but what would I lose if I stayed?” > > Then Bill Gates asked that everyone who didn’t have experience managing > groups of more than 100 people to leave the room. 2000 more people left the > room. Moris Cohen thought, “I don’t have that experience, but what would I > lose if I stayed?” > > Then Bill Gates asked everyone who didn’t graduate their university cum > laude, to leave the room. 500 people left the room. Moris Cohen thought, “I > dropped out of school when I was 15, but what would I lose if I stayed?” > > Then Bill Gates asked everyone who wasn’t fluent in Serbian and Croatian to > leave the room. 498 more people left. Moris Cohen thought, “I don’t know > these languages, but what would I lose if I stayed?” > > After that, only him and one other attendee were left in the room. Bill Gates > approaches them and said, “I see, only you two are fluent in Serbian and > Croatian. I’d like to hear you communicate in them.” > > Without flinching an eye, Moris Cohen turned to the other candidate and said, > “Ma nishtanah halailah hazeh mikol haleilot?” > > To which, without hesitation, the other candidate replied, “Sheb’khol > haleilot anu okhlin hametz umatzah; halailah hazeh, kuloh matzah.” > > Hag Sameah to all who celebrate! > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
