Teams of archaeologists were excavating in Israel when they came upon a cave.
Written across the wall of the cave were the following symbols, in this order of
appearance: A woman, a donkey, a shovel, a fish and a Star of David. They
decided that this was a unique find and the writings were at least three
thousand years old. They chopped out the piece of stone and had it brought to
the museum, where archeologists from all over the world came to study the
ancient symbols.
They held a huge meeting after months of conferences to discuss the meaning
of the markings. The president of the society stood up and pointed to the first
drawing and said: “This looks like a woman. We can, therefore, judge that this
race was family oriented and held women in high esteem. You can also tell that
they were intelligent, industrious, inventive, and resourceful. The next symbol
resembles a donkey, so, they were smart enough to have animals help them till
the soil.
The following pictograph, the image of what appears to be a shovel of some
sort, which indicates that they had tools at their disposal to make their work
more efficient and purposeful. Even further proof of their high intelligence is
the next picture, that of a fish, which clearly means that if a famine had hit
the earth, whereby food did not grow, they would take to the sea for food.
And finally, the last symbol, evidently a Star of David, although somewhat
primitive in design, indicates that these early inhabitants were indeed
Hebrews.” The audience of archaeologists applauded enthusiastically. Suddenly,
an old man stood up in the back of the room and said, “Idiots! Hebrew is read
from right to left! It says: ‘Holy Mackerel! Dig the Ass on that Woman!’”
