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From: manheime@nbs-amrf.UUCP (Ken Manheimer)
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Subject: Re: Re: tasteless and not rotated Space Shuttle Jokes
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Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 19:02:38 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  3 19:02:38 1986
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> >>[some idiot's sick posting]
> >You're sick (although I knew it had to happen).
> >May you win a ride on the next shuttle.
> 
> You're sicker.
> May you work for Union Carbide some day.
> 
> ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720

The discussion (and in some ways the revulsion) generated by the
shuttle jokes are even *funnier* than the original shuttle jokes.
More clever, too.  (Intentional or sincere?  - ie terrific wit or else
only half such...)

Death is horrible *but* inevitable, and so is a part of life.  You
have to reconcile it somehow - if you can't laugh about it in some
context (i mean if it insurmountably *has* to be treated with
seriousness) than it will effectively overshadow any sense of the
pleasures in life - it will outweigh them.

I'm not suggesting there's any profound valor in these jokes, only
that there's no irrevocable sanctity to this (or any other!)  topic.
Irrevocable sanctity is a retreat from life, and admission of
defeat.  While making jokes isn't necessarily (probably isn't
usually) any transcendence, getting rigid minded (that's
"sanctimonious", folks) about their rightness or wrongness (as far
as i'm concerned) is outright defeat.

As someone quoted,

"Break on through to the other side..."

Ken Manheimer	...!seismo!nbs-amrf!manheime or manheime@nbs-amrf.uucp

(Everything leaks.  Not excessively; just enough.)

[I've cross posted this to net jokes because i would have minded
 missing the paraphrased stuff.  Please send followups to
 net.jokes.d    .    Quack.

 Anyway, (now for a rotated part for the hypersensitive scatophobes:)
-  Jung'f ovt naq oebja naq fvgf ba n cvnab fgbby?

-  Orrgubira'f Ynfg Zbirzrag.]