Quote Originally Posted by Throbert McGee View Post
LOL! It's nice to see an example of a Russian joke that translates easily into many other languages (since the word-play in Lampada's Что такое причастие? joke can't be translated at all).
Okay, on second thought, I just had an inspiration:

A blonde goes into a rabbi's office and asks:

"What's a bris?"

The rabbi gives a long explanation about the rite of bris for newborn Jewish boys, and the Scriptural basis for circumcision. After he's finished explaining, the blonde looks very puzzled and then asks:

"Ummm, okay then, what's hubris?"

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(Okay, so it's not an EXACT translation... But I couldn't think of any Christian rituals with English names that sound similar to other common words.)