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From: ttp@kestrel.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: brains for sale --offensive to jazz musicians (with apology)
Message-ID: <3588@kestrel.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 23-Dec-85 19:37:25 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 23 19:37:25 1985
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Summary: another brain drain

> 
>            Cannibal: $ 15.75/lb. for <..> brains ??. What's the matter ?.
> 		     You can't find any <..> around Africa  ??.
> 
>            BUTCHER: Are you kidding ??!!.  you know how many <..> you 
> 		    have to kill to get a pound of brains ???!!! ..........
> 

Joe heard about the new brain transplant operation and decided to
exchange his for one of the higher powered models available. So he
went to the hospital and examined the brain selection. There was a
mathematician's brain, quivering pink in a glass case, for $100.
Pretty inexpensive, he thought.  A radiologist's in the next case was
a bit more, $400.  Finally, he came to a large crystal case,
containing a brain, a jazz musician's, for $5000.

He was aghast. He demanded of the orderly, "A mathematician's brain
for $100, a radiologist's for $400, why is this brain so much more?!".
The orderly replied, "It's never been used."

I'm repeating this joke as it was told me. Apparently the talent of
jazz musicians is not respected in certain circles -- why I don't know.
I'm sure I might miss some good joke schemas by skipping over the ones
that would be offensive to me. To remedy this, I propose
lambda-abstraction in net.jokes, e.g., in a lisp-like syntax:

   (lambda (scapegoat)
      (progn
        (print (concat "What is the latest advent in" 
                       (possessive scapegoat) "science?"))
        (print "The Appendix Transplant.")))
   (your-favority-scapegoat)

-tom