Gimpel Beynish the Matchmaker
(Gimpl Beynish der Shadkhn)
Yiddish Comics of the early 20th century

1. How long will I hang here on the phone receiver like this? A plague on all Germans.
   
2. What's this? A hook for catching fish. Perhaps I am also a fish.
   
3. Oy, it's dragging me so, just the way they pull fish through the ocean. A fine fish business with me.
   
4. Where are they dragging me now? Soon I'll be up in heaven. Gvald, what's going to happen?
   
5. Oho, they're pulling me up to a swing that looks just like in Coney Island.
   
6. Master of the Universe. Maybe they're pulling me all the way up to You? Why don't You have any more time for me on earth?
   
7. I haven't written a will and I haven't said my final confession - why are You in such a hurry?
   
8. What do you say, Mr. German -- I should slide along under here in a sack and throw bombs on a church?
   
9. Well, ok, sliding along in a sack is one thing, but throwing bombs - that is feh for a man like me.
   
10. Oy vey, the bombs are falling from my hands -- may the teeth fall out of German mouths the same way.

Labels: airship, dirigible, war, World War I