If you are easily offended by ethnic jokes, stop reading NOW!

An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a Latvian, a Turk, a German, a Canadian, an Indian, several Americans (including a southerner, a New Englander, and a Californian), an Argentinean, a Dane, an Australian, a Slovak, an Egyptian, a Japanese, a Moroccan, a Frenchman, a New Zealander, a Spaniard, a Russian, a Guatemalan, a Colombian, a Pakistani, a Malaysian, a Croatian, a Uzbek, a Cypriot, a Pole, a Lithuanian, a Chinese, a Sri Lankan, a Lebanese, a Cayman Islander, a Ugandan, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Uruguayan, a Czech, an Icelander, a Mexican, a Finn, a Honduran, a Panamanian, an Andorran, an Israeli, a Venezuelan, a Fijian, a Peruvian, an Estonian, a Brazilian, a Portuguese, a Liechtensteiner, a Mongolian, a Hungarian, a Moldovan, a Haitian, a Norfolk Islander, a Macedonian, a Bolivian, a Cook Islander, a Tajikistani, a Samoan, an Armenian, an Aruban, an Albanian, a Greenlander, a Micronesian, a Virgin Islander, a Georgian, a Bahaman, a Belarusian, a Cuban, a Tongan, a Cambodian, a Qatari, an Azerbaijani, a Romanian, a Chilean, a Kyrgyzstani, a Jamaican, a Filipino, a Ukrainian, a Dutchman, a Ecuadorian, a Costa Rican, a Swede, a Bulgarian, a Serb, a Swiss, a Greek, a Belgian, a Singaporean, an Italian, a Norwegian and 47 Africans, walk into a fine restaurant….

“I’m sorry” says the maître d’, scrutinizing the group one by one and barring their entrance, “You can’t come in here without a Thai.”

You can blame Gary DeSomber for that one.

Hope you’re having a happy Sunday. I’m into reading a real book today – a rereading of my favorite sports book of all time, Jim Bouton’s classic Ball Four. I’ve been into ebooks for a while now and had forgotten the joy of holding an actual book in my hands and getting to flip pages and placing scraps of paper between the pages to serve as bookmarks. Nice.

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