OY VEY

Saul was taking an oral exam in his ESL class. He was asked to spell "cultivate," and he spelled it correctly. He was then asked to use the word in a sentence, "Last vinter on a very cold day, I vas vaiting for a bus, but it vas too cultivate, so I took the subvay home."

What’s so funny about this? I love this joke. It’s got all the elements I like. It’s ethnic, It’s ESL. It uses an accent, AND it has a brilliant pun. What could be better? Saul is kind of an “Everyman” or maybe an Everystudent. He’s learning English and he’s mastered a good bit of it, except maybe his pronunciation could use a little more work. Though, most likely he’ll have the accent for the rest of his life. And it’s not a terrible thing if he does. Saul is even a bit of a wise guy, or maybe I should use that older term, “weisenheimer”. Or visenheimer. This word is defined by google as, “a person who behaves in an irritatingly smug or arrogant fashion, typically by making clever remarks and displaying their knowle