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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: golf joke; short flame
Message-ID: <895@burl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 22:16:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: burl.895
Posted: Tue Oct  8 22:16:54 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 11-Oct-85 07:06:32 EDT
Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
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Keywords: Golf Rock_Hudson

I hope I haven't posted this one before -- but here goes:

This <generic clergyman; I'm going to use priest cause it's short> is out
playing golf, and on one hole he lays up right in front of this large pond.
He's considering using a water ball, when the heavens open up and this
deep booming voice says, "Don't worry about using a cut ball."

Not one to argue with such as this, the priest goes over to his golf bag to
select a club, and is trying to decide whether (especially with his
new-found aid-from-above) he can hit the ball over with his pitching wedge
or if he should pull out his 9 iron.  The voice comes again from above:
"Use the pitching wedge."

Very confident at this point, the priest steps up to the ball and is
considering whether he ought to take a practice swing or not, when the
voice on high booms again:  "Take a practice swing."  Well, he steps back,
winds up, and takes a practice swing.  There is a very short pause, then
the voice speaks once more:  "Use a cut ball."

Now for a short flame -- to the person who recently posted the bleeding-
heart Rock Hudson sympathy letter.  There are many of us out here who
hope -- should we ever get into a situation similar to that of Rock
or Karen Ann Quinlan, or should we ever get as fat as Liz Taylor was til
recently, or should we ever get burned up like Richard Pryor -- that we
provide as much entertainment to others in our misery as these people
have provided through what you call 'sick' jokes.  As Richard Pryor said
in his first concert movie after his burning incident, "Yeh, I know what
y'all been sayin' behind my back -- I heard the jokes.  [Pulls out a
lighter, lights it, and bounces it along through the air]  'Whats this?
Richard Pryor runnin down the street!'"  And then he smiled.
-- 

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