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Moleborough College has recently acquired rare copies of the two Tintin comics translated into Latin by Caelestis Eichenseer: De sigaris Pharaonis and Insula Nigra. The former is displayed under Comics in Latin for educational purposes. A quasi-literal translation is given frame by frame for the first few pages.




The source is 5,000 ans d'humeur juifs.


Here's a good short joke:

A man approaches a Rabbi.

'I know an old widow who's too poor to pay her rent. Can the community help?'

'Of course, here, take this. But tell me, are you family?'

'No Rabbi, I'm her landlord.'


Here's another:

WWII has been over for some years. An unemployed French man without visible means spends conspicuous amounts of money in bars and clubs by night and by day cruises around in his sports car.

'What's your secret?' his best friend asks him. 'Are you in the black market?'

'No, don't tell anyone, I'm hiding two jews in my cellar. They're paying me well.'

'But the war finished years ago!'

'Yes, but I haven't told them yet.'








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