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Description:In 1985, the Australian Family Therapy Conference was held in Perth, Western Australia. One evening, George, Sophie, Jeff, Allesandro, Barbara, Moshe and I were sitting in the communal room of St. Georges College, where we were boarding during the conference. Over a bottle or three of good red wine, conversation of the day’s events turned to telling stories and jokes. Australia is a wonderfully diverse continent. We have people from all other continents. We have a variety of cultures which leads to marvellous foods, musical rhythms, literature, theatre… and comedy. And how Australians love to laugh. Over many decades our comedy has often been irreverent, poking fun at authority, the military, the law, doctors and politicians. Sometimes we focus on racial, religious and cultural difference: The Irish and New Zealanders, Italians and Greeks, Middle Easterners, East Europeans and Russians, and Jews and Catholics. Or we poke gentle fun at the elderly and at blondes. I myself don’t believe that this reflects malice. More often, racist malice comes out, in ‘Letters to the Editor’, callers on radio talk-back shows, and posts and tweets on social media misusing their right to freedom of speech, and in the ugly violence seen public groups misusing their right of protest. Rather than promoting racism, I believe our Australian jokes send up the ridiculousness of our prejudices and the idiocy of racist ideas wherever they exist. They also help us deal with the anxieties of life, about sex, death, aging, difference and that which we do not understand. This is a bit like family therapy in itself. Patients come in with one view of the world that causes them pain. The therapist may use humour to encourage another, less painful, perspective of their situation. And most of the jokes in this book I have shared with patients in my addiction medical practice. There is a great deal of despair, hopelessness, shame and lack of esteem amongst my addiction medical practice patients. An appropriately told joke can be a very useful means of lifting spirits and engaging with patients. As our evening at St George’s came to a close, Moshe said: “John, we should have had a tape recorder. We could have written a great book!”Now, I don’t pretend I remember all the jokes from that evening thirty years ago, although I do recall a few. However, I do remember many more jokes shared with colleagues and congregants, family and friends from the 1960’s until current times.Here then is a selection of jokes, all recalled from a flow of memory over the last two weeks in December 2015, but spanning five decades. Where possible, I have used names that avoid racial and cultural stereotyping. Of course, a story about a Rabbi will always have a Jewish context. Benedictions and last rites involve a priest. Judaism, Christianity and Judaism all have their concepts of Heaven and Hell. And Napoleon, and Goering, will always be Napoleon, and Goering. Largely, however, I have tried to make the jokes interchangeable between genders and all the cultures which enrich Australia. I want this book to be an inclusive experience for readers. I’ve used names like Pad, Zet and Fan so that the person referred to may be either gender and from any culture or religion. If gender, culture or religion is integral to the story told, it will become obvious. Why not download these jokes on your I Telephone or I Pad and share them with your friends over a good brew at your favourite eatery? Then you will capture the atmosphere of that night my colleagues and I enjoyed a long time ago, in a decade far, far away…We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Bird with Really Long Legs: A Collection of Australian and Multicultural Jokes. To get started finding A Bird with Really Long Legs: A Collection of Australian and Multicultural Jokes, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In 1985, the Australian Family Therapy Conference was held in Perth, Western Australia. One evening, George, Sophie, Jeff, Allesandro, Barbara, Moshe and I were sitting in the communal room of St. Georges College, where we were boarding during the conference. Over a bottle or three of good red wine, conversation of the day’s events turned to telling stories and jokes. Australia is a wonderfully diverse continent. We have people from all other continents. We have a variety of cultures which leads to marvellous foods, musical rhythms, literature, theatre… and comedy. And how Australians love to laugh. Over many decades our comedy has often been irreverent, poking fun at authority, the military, the law, doctors and politicians. Sometimes we focus on racial, religious and cultural difference: The Irish and New Zealanders, Italians and Greeks, Middle Easterners, East Europeans and Russians, and Jews and Catholics. Or we poke gentle fun at the elderly and at blondes. I myself don’t believe that this reflects malice. More often, racist malice comes out, in ‘Letters to the Editor’, callers on radio talk-back shows, and posts and tweets on social media misusing their right to freedom of speech, and in the ugly violence seen public groups misusing their right of protest. Rather than promoting racism, I believe our Australian jokes send up the ridiculousness of our prejudices and the idiocy of racist ideas wherever they exist. They also help us deal with the anxieties of life, about sex, death, aging, difference and that which we do not understand. This is a bit like family therapy in itself. Patients come in with one view of the world that causes them pain. The therapist may use humour to encourage another, less painful, perspective of their situation. And most of the jokes in this book I have shared with patients in my addiction medical practice. There is a great deal of despair, hopelessness, shame and lack of esteem amongst my addiction medical practice patients. An appropriately told joke can be a very useful means of lifting spirits and engaging with patients. As our evening at St George’s came to a close, Moshe said: “John, we should have had a tape recorder. We could have written a great book!”Now, I don’t pretend I remember all the jokes from that evening thirty years ago, although I do recall a few. However, I do remember many more jokes shared with colleagues and congregants, family and friends from the 1960’s until current times.Here then is a selection of jokes, all recalled from a flow of memory over the last two weeks in December 2015, but spanning five decades. Where possible, I have used names that avoid racial and cultural stereotyping. Of course, a story about a Rabbi will always have a Jewish context. Benedictions and last rites involve a priest. Judaism, Christianity and Judaism all have their concepts of Heaven and Hell. And Napoleon, and Goering, will always be Napoleon, and Goering. Largely, however, I have tried to make the jokes interchangeable between genders and all the cultures which enrich Australia. I want this book to be an inclusive experience for readers. I’ve used names like Pad, Zet and Fan so that the person referred to may be either gender and from any culture or religion. If gender, culture or religion is integral to the story told, it will become obvious. Why not download these jokes on your I Telephone or I Pad and share them with your friends over a good brew at your favourite eatery? Then you will capture the atmosphere of that night my colleagues and I enjoyed a long time ago, in a decade far, far away…We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Bird with Really Long Legs: A Collection of Australian and Multicultural Jokes. To get started finding A Bird with Really Long Legs: A Collection of Australian and Multicultural Jokes, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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