>> An elderly Jewish man is bumped by a car while
>> crossing the street. He is seemingly unhurt, but his
>> wife persuades him to go to the doctor, just in
>> case.
>> He returns home, and his wife says--"Nu, vos zogt
>> der
>> doktor?" (What did the doctor say?)
>>
>> "Der doktor zogt az ich hob a flucky." ["The doctor
>> says I have a flucky."]
>>
>> "Oy, gevalt! A flucky! Terrible! What do you do for
>> a
>> flucky?"
>>
>> "I don't know--he didn't say, and I forgot to ask."
>>
>> Well, by this time the wife is in a state of high
>> anxiety. She tells her neighbors "My husband was hit
>> by a car, and now he has a flucky!  I don't know
>> what to do!"
>>
>> Neighbor #1 says, "In the old country, when someone
>> had a flucky, we always applied cold. Ice cold is
>> the
>> best thing for a flucky."
>>
>> Neighbor #2 says, "What are you talking about? Cold
>> is
>> absolutely the worst thing you could do for a
>> flucky!
>> We always applied heat, that's the only thing to do
>> for a flucky."
>>
>> Cold, heat, oy!  Now thoroughly agitated, the wife
>> decides to call the doctor herself. "Doctor, please
>> tell me, what's wrong with my husband?"
>>
>> "I told him...nothing's wrong. He got off lucky."
>>