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From: pete@valid.UUCP (Pete Zakel)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: shuttle jokes -- need I say tasteless?
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Date: Thu, 27-Feb-86 20:43:53 EST
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> Quite often, part of the basis of comedy is the fact that we
> do not see ourselves as the object or subject of the joke, for
> when we do, the joke is no longer funny.
> 
> Bearing this in mind, I would like to submit that the people
> who find space shuttle jokes funny must already be dead, if
> only partially (like, from the heart out).
> 
> Galen.

Faulty logic.  Live people find the joke funny.  Dead people (object of joke)
don't.

So there!  Nyah, nyah, nyah!
-- 
-Pete Zakel (..!{hplabs,amd,pyramid,ihnp4}!pesnta!valid!pete)