Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site shark.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!orca!shark!galenr From: galenr@shark.UUCP (Galen Redfield) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: shuttle jokes -- need I say tasteless? Message-ID: <1639@shark.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 20:18:43 EST Article-I.D.: shark.1639 Posted: Wed Feb 5 20:18:43 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Feb-86 22:02:06 EST References: <119@nbs-amrf.UUCP> <225@imagen.UUCP> Reply-To: galenr@shark.UUCP (Galen Redfield) Distribution: net Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 16 Summary: Laugh until you die! --------- 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). RIP, jokers! Still metabolizing, Galen. (I wonder what he *meant* by that?)