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Re: shuttle jokes -- need I say tasteless?

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From: Pete Zakel
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1986 01:43
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> 
> Quite often, part of the basis of comedy is the fact that we
> do not see ourselves as the object or subject of the joke, for
> when we do, the joke is no longer funny.
> 
> Bearing this in mind, I would like to submit that the people
> who find space shuttle jokes funny must already be dead, if
> only partially (like, from the heart out).
> 
> Galen.

Faulty logic.  Live people find the joke funny.  Dead people (object of joke)
don't.

So there!  Nyah, nyah, nyah!
-- 
-Pete Zakel (..!{hplabs,amd,pyramid,ihnp4}!pesnta!valid!pete)
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Subject: Re: shuttle jokes -- need I say tasteless?
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