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From: briand@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Diehm)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: True College Incident
Message-ID: <518@tekig4.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 03:17:04 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 28 03:17:04 1986
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR
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A brief comment, then the joke, then the reminder.

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The comment:  To all you people who are trigger-flamers over Space Shuttle
jokes, remember that humor is a psychologically valid way for many people to
deal with grief and come to terms with it.  Lighten up, your way isn't right
for everybody.  Oh excuse me, you're right, it IS after 1984.  I'm just SO
embarrassed over this. . .

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The joke, which I have gotten second hand, is supposedly true.  The scene,
college biology lab.  The days assignment, to examine under the microscope a
scraping from inside the mouth (appetizing what they do to college students,
eh?)  The stage setting, cute young (dumb) thing is calling over to the lab
assistant to take a look at what she has in her microscope, as it isn't AT ALL
like ANYTHING in the book.  Lab Assistant takes a peek, does a "hmmm" and calls
over the prof.  By now the whole room is sort of listening in . . . is it
Deng Deng fever?  Is it worse?  Is it, fergawdzake, CONTAGIOUS??????  The LA
asks the Prof "Is this what I think it is?"  The prof takes a cursory glance
through the instrument, straightens up, looks directly at the LA, and says:

     "Yup, a human sperm cell!"

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The reminder:  This incident came to mind recently when I read the posting
about a class discussion in which the prof mentioned that human Semen was
quite high in sugar content, to which the proverbial dumb blonde (I know, here
come the flames from net.censors) in the back asked before thinking "Well, how
come it TASTES so salty?"  The story was billed as true.

-Brian Diehm
Tektronix, Inc.