Hyman and his wife Yetta never got on in their latter years and when Hyman died after a long illness, Yetta put an announcement in the Jewish Chronicle newspaper stating that he died of gonorrhoea.
As soon as Hyman’s sister read the paper, she phoned Yetta. “You know perfectly well that Hymie died of diarrhoea, not gonorrhoea.”
Yetta replied, “Of course I know he died of diarrhoea – after all, who was it who nursed Hyman night and day? Nevertheless, I thought my announcement would be a better way for people to remember him – as a great lover rather than the big shit he was.”
Credit: David Minkoff, A Word In Your Eye