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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Angler who wrote (12623)	11/24/1999 2:33:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62558

It isn't a tragedy, of course. Because it's not about real people. Like the craps joke. Both are funny, and are not offensive because they are generic. What I personally find offensive are jokes about personal tragedy, especially those affecting non-public figures. Clinton jokes are funny because a) a politician is fair game and should know it when he or she puts him- or her-self out on the open market (though if Chelsea died in a tragic way I wouldn't look for jokes about that, either), and b) he has really brought it on himself by his behaviors. But jokes about real tragedies affecting ordinary people making fun or light of their personal grief I don't find funny and do find offensive. It is those jokes I hope people will have the self-restraint not to post. But, being a lawyer, I love lawyer jokes. Most of them are well known, but this one might be new to some of you. A lawyer died and, of course went to the hot place. He was sentenced to life in the pit of burning tar. As he was walking to his punishment, he saw a lawyer he known in the upper world receiving oral sex from a beautiful woman. He turned to his accompanying demon and complained. "Here I'm going to the pit of burning tar and he's getting a &*#$ job fro a beautiful woman. It isn't fair." Answered the demon: "That's the worst punishment we were able to devise for her."