Window Dressing in Moyle

There is a classic joke, best told in a Yiddish accent (think Jacky Mason). A mohel puts a clock in his storefront. A customer walks in to have his watch fixed, but the mohel says, "I don't fix watches." The customer asks, "why do you have a clock in your window?" The mohel responds, "If you were a mohel, what would you put in your window?"

I had much the same reaction reading the Supreme Court's leaked opinion in Moyle v. United States. The Supreme Court could not actually muster an opinion on the EMTALA question, so they left us with window dressing: a DIG and a punt.

Last bris joke, I promise.

Comments

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Jokes about people who mutilate children for money are always hilarious.

[ReaderY]

You’ve decided you oppose abortion after all?

[Kleppe]

I thought he was referring to “gender-affirming care”

[ReaderY]

I see – he’s one of those anti-cis bigots who support gender affirming care for trans people, but not for cis people. Which is of course exactly what a mohel provides. Gender affirming care for cis people. He’s actually using the phobic-speak term “mutilation” to describe it, as if he thinks identity-affirming genital modification is like, immoral or something. What kind of neandrethal is he? I didn’t think he had become that much of a clinger.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Circumcision -- mutilation of an infant for no reason -- is disgusting child abuse. I don't expect clingers to apprehend the moral issue.

[ReaderY]

Wow! He really does call gender identity affirmation “no reason.” He really does call gender-identity affirming care “mutilation” and “disgusting child abuse.” He calls his phobia a “moral issue.”

What a clinger!

He’s just like the proverbial story of the brocolli farmer who gets on the Supreme Court. Suddenly we not only get opinions filled with how our country was founded and our constitution framed for the very purpose of promoting broccoli, we hear that it’s an objective moral fact that spinach and other competitor vegetables are disgusting weeds that the state has a clear compelling interest in eradicating.

[JesusHadBlondeHairBlueEyes]

I hate to admit this, but I don't get the joke. Would anyone mind explaining it?

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

My Stalin t-shirt says

Dark humor is like food.
Not everybody gets it.

[Terry2007]

Don’t feel bad. You were not the only one. I had to look up what he was writing about.

[Carl_N_Brown]

A circumcisionist puts a clock in his storefront.
A customer walks in to have his watch fixed, but the circumcisionist says, "I don't fix watches."
The customer asks, "why do you have a clock in your window?"
The circumcisionist responds, "If you were a circumcisionist, what would you put in your window? A foreskin?"

[Carl_N_Brown]

I think the opening post was inspired by the phonetic resemblance between Mohel and Moyle.
Sounds like Josh rid himself of an annoying mindworm by passing it along to us.