There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. ~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith
I love this one from his book he Joys of Yiddish (1968) just wished to share it...."What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles?" The answer: "A Herring" — because you can paint it green, nail it to the wall — and the whistling part is added just to make the riddle hard." Rosten did not claim to be the author of this riddle, but he popularized it.
I love this one from his book he Joys of Yiddish (1968) just wished to share it....
ReplyDelete"What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles?"
The answer: "A Herring" — because you can paint it green, nail it to the wall — and the whistling part is added just to make the riddle hard."
Rosten did not claim to be the author of this riddle, but he popularized it.