An American and A Russian were arguing about the virtues of communism and democracy. "Come on man!" said the American, "In a democracy you get to express your views. You have freedom. You know, I can anyday call President Bush an idiot!" "What s so great about that," said the unimpressed Russian "so can I!"
A camel decided to educate his son who he suspected was getting a little inquisitive. 'Why do we have two humps?' asked the son. 'That is so that we can go for days and weeks without water. We can store it in the humps.' 'Why do we have very long eye lashes?' 'That,' he was told, 'is to protect the eyes from the sand in a sand storm.' 'And why do we have bulbous looking feet?' 'That is so that we can travel twice as fast through the desert.' 'Dad,' asked the young camel, 'what the hell are we doing in this zoo?'
Then there was the man whose bread fell and landed buttered side up. He ran straight away to his rabbi to report this deviance from one of the basic rules of the universe.
At first the rabbi would not believe him but finally became convinced that it had happened. However, he did not feel qualified to deal with the question and passed it along to one of the world's leading Talmudic scholars.
After months of waiting, the scholar finally came up with an answer: "The bread must have been buttered on the wrong side."