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From: wmb@sun.uucp (Mitch Bradley)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Parachute joke
Message-ID: <368@sun.uucp>
Date: Sun, 11-Dec-83 02:07:27 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 11 02:07:27 1983
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A guy joins the Marines and signs up for parachute school.  He doesn't know
what a parachute is, so he is really taken aback when he finds that he has
to jump out of airplanes.  Anyway, the instructor tells the class that they
have to pull the ripcord after 10 seconds.  If the main chute doesn't open
they should pull the cord for the emergency parachute.  After they land
there will be trucks waiting to take them back to camp.

Our hero goes up for his first jump and has to be pushed out of the plane
when his turn comes up.  He counts up to five, forgets the next number and
decides to pull the cord right away.  Nothing happens.  Remembering the
instructions, he pulls the cord for the emergency parachute.  Nothing happens.

So he thinks to himself, "Yeah, I'll bet those trucks won't be there either."