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From: mrc@panda.UUCP (Mike R. Connell)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: tasteless and not rotated Space Shuttle Jokes needed
Message-ID: <1360@panda.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 31-Jan-86 15:30:14 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 31 15:30:14 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Feb-86 20:43:13 EST
References: <1550@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <2581@pucc-h> <11425@watnot.UUCP>
Reply-To: mrc@panda.UUCP (Mike R. Connell)
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In article <11425@watnot.UUCP> rdgreenall@watnot.UUCP (Richard Greenall) writes:
>> In article <1550@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> benn@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (T. Cox) writes:
>> >[]
>> >This is a request for the most tasteless [sic] joke to get posted
>> >to the net as quickly as possible after the explosion of the 
>> >space shuttle.  Those that mention teachers being blown up
>> >will gain extra points.  The award will go to the first posting
>> >as shown by the news software at the originator's site.  
>
> You've got be be kidding. I think you win unanimously.
>
>                         RDGREENALL@WATNOT.UUCP
>                              - Richard Greenall


Am I alone in perceiving the original posting as a satirical plea for
*no* mindless shuttle jokes?  This was the impression I got on first reading
it.

When the devastating news of the shuttle first reached me, I immediately
(after getting a sick feeling in my stomach) thought, "Oh no, this means
a nauseating spate of sick jokes on the net."  In fact I have already "n"'d
passed one.  

I was tempted to post a plea for no shuttle jokes, then thought it better to
just let the subject lie and see who might start it. (it sure would tell
me a lot about the people we're dealing with.)

My plea probably would not have been of the tongue-in-cheek nature, but that's
the way I interpreted the Cox posting.


					"Break on through to the other side"
							MRC