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From: libes@nbs-amrf.UUCP (Don Libes)
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Subject: Jokes about someone's death
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Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 11:24:31 EST
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> >I think that it is sick to make a joke over a persons death.
> >I doubt that you would like tastless jokes made about you or your
> >loved ones deaths.
> 
> Of course it's sick. No one is disputing that. That doesn't mean it
> shouldn't be posted - rotated of course.

I agree.  In fact, I encourage jokes about my death.  It would be
horrible to die, knowing that I had missed some good jokes, so I
want to hear them now.  Ok?

Unfortunately, it occurs to me now that Mark Twain's joke about his
own death is already famous.  And I've heard that joke many, many
times and no one has thought it tasteless.  Indeed, I think it's a
bit of "classic" humor, often applied to other things, now.

PS: I told Jeff's jokes to my folks and they thought they were
sick but pretty funny nonetheless.  And they are both teachers (you
wouldn't believe how many obscene and/or sick teacher jokes I've
heard in the past from my parents (none of which they made up...all
passed on to them by other teachers)).

Don Libes         {seismo,umcp-cs}!nbs-amrf!libes