Little Melissa comes home from first grade and tells her father that they learned about
the history of Valentine's Day. "Since Valentine's Day is for a Christian Saint and
we're Jewish,"! she asks, "will God get mad at me for giving someone a
valentine?
Melissa's father thinks a bit, then says, "No, I don't think God would get mad. Who
do you want to give a valentine to?"
"Osama Bin Laden," she says.
"Why Osama Bin Laden?" her father asks in shock.
"Well," she says, "I thought that if a little American Jewish girl could
have enough love to give Osama a valentine, he might start to think that maybe we're not
all bad, and maybe start loving people a little bit. And if other kids saw what I did and
sent valentines to Osama, he'd love everyone a lot and then he'd start going all over the
place to tell everyone how much he loved them and how he didn't hate anyone anymore."
Her father's heart swells and he looks at his daughter with new-found pride.
"Melissa, that's the most wonderful thing I've ever heard."
"I know," Melissa says, "and once that gets him out in the open, our
Marines could blow his ass to Kingdom Come."
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