Friday, 14 September 2007

L'Shana Tova (The Annual I'm-a-Jew-Post)

Another correspondent alerts me of the existence of this bumper sticker. 

In addition to vindicating analogy bans, it provides the single best Amazon category ever:

Amazon.com: Jews: Automotive

Surprisingly, Amazon seems to have none of these in stock.

Sep 14, 2007 7:10:00 AM

4 Comments

Mike Russo

When first glancing at this post, I thought the joke was going to be something along the lines of "Amazon.com is to Jews as automotive is to X?" I was really, really curious what X was going to be. Sigh.

Posted by: Mike Russo | Friday, 14 September 2007 at 09:14 AM

Ahistoricality

Amazon.com is to Jews as automotive is to ... street racers?

Come on people, help me out here!

Posted by: Ahistoricality | Saturday, 15 September 2007 at 12:39 AM

happyfeet

Amazon.com is to Jews as automotive is to ... a Volkswagen Rabbi?

Hah. Ok not a fun game really.

This is interesting though. Yes, Virginia, there is anti-Semitism here.

Posted by: happyfeet | Saturday, 15 September 2007 at 05:42 PM

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