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title: "[OT] Sad joke"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/24/ot-sad-joke.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/24/ot-sad-joke.html"
published: "2004-05-24T06:56:00"
updated: "2004-05-24T06:56:00"
tags: ["Blogging"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "This joke came in the mail today, and while I'm not usually into politics, I just had to write this down. It would have been really funny if it wasn't so sad (and don't flame me, this is all in good, satirical, dark…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# \[OT\] Sad joke

By Roy Osherove May 24, 2004 In [Blogging](https://osherove.com/blog/category/blogging)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 24, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

This joke came in the mail today, and while I'm not usually into politics, I just had to write this down. It would have been really funny if it wasn't so sad (and don't flame me, this is all in good, satirical, dark humor):

A guy in Paris sees a pit bull attacking a toddler.
 He kills the pit bull and saves the child's life.
 Reporters swarmed the fellow.

"Tell us! What's your name? All Paris will love you!
 Tomorrow's headline  will be:

****"Parisian Hero Saves Girl from Vicious Dog!"**** The guy says, "Well, I'm not from Paris.

 "Reporters: "That's OK. Then the whole of France  will love you and tomorrow's headline will read:

 ****'French Hero Saves Girl from Vicious Dog!'"****

 The guy says, "I'm not from France, either."

 Reporters: "That's OK also. All Europe will love you.

 Tomorrow's headlines will shout:

 ****"European Hero Saves Girl from Vicious Dog!"****

 The guy says, "I'm not from Europe, either.

"Reporters: "So, where ARE you from?

 The guy says, "I'm from Israel."

 The next day's headlines read:

****"Israeli Murders a Dog,  Leaves a Girl Bleeding!"****

****"Israeli Brings Violence to Paris: a Pet is Murdered, Girl Wounded"****

****"Israeli Attack: One Dead, a Wounded Toddler Rescued".****

## More in Blogging

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- May 27, 2004

    ### [Another Israeli Blogger](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/27/another-israeli-blogger.html)

- May 22, 2004

    ### [Recommended C# Bloggers](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/22/recommended-c-bloggers.html)

- May 22, 2004

    ### [Returning to RSS bandit and a couple of requests](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/5/22/returning-to-rss-bandit-and-a-couple-of-requests.html)


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