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From: kar@ritcv.UUCP (Kenneth A Reek)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Viking war joke
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Date: Wed, 10-Aug-83 22:41:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 10 22:41:07 1983
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NOTE: This joke is better with the theatrical effects, but here goes anyway...

	A Viking force of 3 ships was sailing the ocean in search of new
lands to conquer when the lookout in the first ship spots land.  "Land Ho!",
he cries.  At this point, the lookout in the second ship spies the land and
shouts to his shipmates, "Land ho!"  The lookout in the third ship is sleeping
over the rail of the crow's nest.

	All three ships head toward land.  In the first ship, the men strain at
the oars as the galley master pounds out the rhythm on his drums, boom boom,
boom boom.  In the second ship, the men strain at their oars as the drums
sound the rhythm for their rowing.  The men in the third ship, however, are
slumped over their oars and the galley master is barely able to twitch his 
fingers on his drums once in a while.

	Finally the ships hit the beach.  The warriors scramble over the side
of the first ship, scurry up to the beach and fall into perfect formation
before their captain.  The warriors from the second ship do likewise, but from
the third ship soldiers can be seen falling over the side into the water.  Some
walk but most crawl up to the beach, and end up strewn here and there about
their captain.

	The commander of the force now addresses his troops.  "Squad one, I
want you to go out there and PLUNDER!"  The men from the first ship all begin
to yell and shout, and run inland.

	"Squad two, I want you to go out there and BURN!"  The men take off,
brandishing their weapons.

	"Squad three . . . "  At this point, the captain of the third ship
groans, "Oh God, not the rape detail again!"


	Ken Reek, Rochester Institute of Technology
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