In article <13t7phfdtiqh64c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
cloud dreamer <Global_Warming@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Tim McDaniel wrote:
> > The second episode of _New Amsterdam_ had a scene with John Amsterdam,
> > his partner, and a medical person (doctor, I'd guess, but maybe
> > someone else) walking into a morgue and up to a corpse. The dialog
> > was
> >
> > Medical Person: Just humor me. Al Sharpton and Billy Graham
> > decide they really gotta see the Pope. They take the Space
> > Shuttle an...
> >
> > John Amsterdam: Just *looks* like a parachute.
> >
> > MP: OK. A doctor, a lawyer, and a veterinarian --
> >
> > JA: Sue the duck.
> >
> > MP: Hank Aaron *dies* --
> >
> > JA: That's God. He just *thinks* he's Barry Bonds.
> >
> > MP: I hate you.
> >
> > Medical Person was starting to tell jokes and Johann was telling the
> > punch lines. (The lead-in, not shown, had to be MP starting to tell a
> > joke, JA spoiling the punch line and saying "Don't bother. I've heard
> > them all".)
> >
> > But it took me a little bit to realize that fact, partially because
> > they were speaking fast but also because I didn't recognize the jokes
> > (except by their structure). I got the dialog above by repeated
> > reviewing of the tape.
> >
> > So what *are* the jokes?
> >
> > (1) I suspect that's more usually told as <three famous people> and
> > <another person> take a plane, the engine develops problems,
> > they're told there's only one parachute, the first two <famous
> > people> explain why they should have it, third <famous person>
> > says he's the most im****tant person in the world, grabs the pack
> > off of <another person>'s back, and jumps out, with the punch line
> >
> > The most im****tant person in the world just stole my backpack.
> >
> > (2) No idea.
> >
> > (3) Not sure. I think I've heard a few jokes about God "just thinks
> > he's X", but I don't remember details.
> >
> > Help?
> >
>
> Doubtful they really are known jokes. They just made up the punchlines
> to...well...drive some people crazy trying to figure out the jokes.
>
> :)
Maybe you're too young to recognize them as old jokes' skeletons 8-)
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