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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 …

…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!’”