Re: [Marxism] Fare dodgers, yesterday and today

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Luko Willms wrote:
> ...BTW, you might appreciate another railway story in the same vein, 
> this one about "Jeckes", i.e. German (jewish) immigrants to 
> Palestine/Israel.
>
> A "jeckes" reports about a train ride from Tel Aviv to Haifa: "It 
> was horrible, I got a seat riding backwards, and I can't stand 
> that". Asks his counterpart: "Couldn't you have asked somebody 
> sitting opposite of you to change places?" -- "But that was the 
> problem -- I couldn't ask, because nobody was sitting there!"

I heard that one as a "little moron" joke something more than 65 years
ago.  It must have been almost a century old by then.

Shane

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