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AS IF
On the end wall of the erstwhile refectory
of the Convent of Santa Maria
delle Grazie, Milan – which is merely
a stone’s row from where a mob of women
mutilated Benito Mussolini
and hung his corpse from a lamp post – hangs
Leonardo Da Vinci’s THE LAST SUPPER.
A tourist once asked a guide three questions:
‘These are Jewish men?’ ‘This is the Passover?’
‘So where are the matzos?’
3 responses to “AS IF”
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Where indeed!
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Mussolini
Mutilation
Matzo
How could these be funny?
But it made me laugh……thank you -
Funny.
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