Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for December 10, 2012

Nothing worse than a damp dreidel. Maybe she can spin dry.

OKayyyy……gonna need help understanding this one…….

“Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of clay…” The kids spin it to answer questions, kind of like those “fortune telling” folded papers we had in elementary school. Which have somewhat the same shape, now that I think about it…hmmm.

The joke though, is simple…The Womble quoted the chorus….but the verse says:

“I have a little dreidel. I made it out of clay.

And when it’s dry and ready, then dreidel I shall play. "

He’s waiting to play!

Thanks SusanSunshine! My neighbor is Jewish, so I guess I could have asked her tomorrow.

I have not played with a dreidel since Junior High School. We had a couple of jewish boys in my class, and when we had our Christmas party, we had a Hannukah party to. They brought us little plastic dreidels. I kept mine until I left H.S.

Thanks to SusanSunshine. I had not heard the poem before.

Yes, thank you for the reminder on the verse itself (which I learned thanks to South Park)

Thanks for the Chanukkah shoutout.

Says Jim Smith If you do ethnic, please explain it !

“You dry up yourself. Mother told me not to marry a hei. I could have married a nice gimel and had it all.”

Thanks Susan. I read the strip in the paper, but had to come here to figure it out.

She looks red-e to me.

The rebbe is spinning in his grave.

sorry I confused why is it in the shower and the other one is saying you are not dry

She looks like s soapy Popsicle. Yucghh.

Thanks, everyone, for the input. Very informative.

hehehe love the hanukah comics! Remember last year’s too! Happy hanukah!