Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site decwrl.DEC.COM Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-crvax1!kaplow From: kaplow@crvax1.DEC (Reach for the Stars) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Marcos and Chicago Message-ID: <1429@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 12:53:26 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1429 Posted: Fri Feb 28 12:53:26 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Mar-86 22:36:43 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 33 >Airplane on fire. One parachute. Passengers: pope, Reagan, Marcos. > >Pope: "I'm the leader of the largest religion in the world, so I > should have the parachute." > >Reagan: "I'm the leader of the most powerful nation in the world, so > I should have the parachute." > >Marcos: "Let's take a vote . . ." The original version I heard more than 10 years ago was set in Chicago, and had the Pope, the President, and then Mayor Daley. Daley won 6-2. *** Marcos will soon move to Chicago, where he intends to join the Democratic Machine, and run for Mayor. *** A lifelong Democrat expressed in her will that she wanted to be burried in Chicago, so she could remain active in party politics. Bob Kaplow Digital Equipment Corp. Arlington Heights, IL UUCP: {allegra,decvax,ihnp4,ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-crvax1!kaplow ARPA: KAPLOW%CRVAX1.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM * Reach for the Stars *