Laughing for all the wrong reasons...

What is it that makes us pass certain things along with emails??? Personally, I'm disgusted by the little ">>>>" every frickin' line and the fact that most people don't have the decency to get rid of the countless commentaries and addresses from the forwards of the same joke/ chain mail letter before it made its way around to you for the 8th time, not to mention bullshit chain letters that threaten everything from no sex life to eternal damnation (what a juxtaposition of concepts, eh) if you don't pass them along...and NO, I did not just learn the word "juxtapostion"; but I digress. Wasn't here to talk about annoyances, but to share a joke a friend of mine sent me, fellow illpoet Takia to be precise. I decided to share the joke with you guys, or technically myself since it's my journal, along with my pointless response to the joke. Well it had a point, but I could have called and saved us all the time. I think I decided to do this as an example of how deep into nothing a Virgo's mind will go if not focused or checked. Anywho, here's the joke, maybe you heard it:
4 PARACHUTES


>A commercial airliner is about to crash! There are 5 passengers on board
>but alas, only 4 parachutes!!!
>
>The 1st passenger says, "I'm Kobe Bryant, the best basketball player in
>the NBA and the Lakers need me, so I can't afford to die." ....He takes the
>1st pack and jumps from the plane.
>
>The 2nd passenger, Hillary Rodham Clinton says, "I am the wife of a former
>U.S. President, I'm a N.Y. State Senator and a potential future president.
>I must live!!" ....So she takes the 2nd pack and jumps out of the plane.
>
>The 3rd passenger, George W. Bush, says, "I'm the President of the United
>States of America. I have a great responsibility being the leader of a
>super-power nation and I am the cleverest president in American
>history, so America's people won't want me to die." ...So he grabs the pack
>
>next to him and jumps out of the plane!
>
>The 4th passenger, Bishop T.D. Jakes says to the 5th passenger, a 10 year
>old schoolgirl, "I've had a very good life and since I am a practicing
>Christian, I will sacrifice my life and let you have the last parachute my
>child."
>
>The girl says, "Nah, it's okay Rev, there is a parachute right
>here for you!! ...America's cleverest president just jumped outta the
>plane with my book bag."
>
>
>
>

And my response:
Takia,
Yeah, I've seen this joke before; My teacher told it to me in 10th grade. Originally it was a world war II joke with four passengers: An American, Brit, Jew & a Nazi. Of course the Nazi was in the shoes of G Dubya, rather G Dubya was in the shoes of the Nazi in this joke. Strangely ironic juxtaposition, no? So yeah, I knew the punch line. Interesting how people feel they need to give certain jokes a "cultural face lift" to keep them funny. Me being the over analyzing Virgo, I found myself wondering why a Jew & Nazi would be on a plane together; much less making civil speeches regarding why they should live. Let's give it another cultural face lift and insert pookie in the joke. Pookie gon' shoot somebody, damn all the speeches. So, the joke is funny to me, but not because of the punchline. It's funny because I'm wondering why the hell T.D. Jakes sheisty ass is gon be on a plane with Kobe's ass...with G Dubya! Inserting Hilary Clinton and the random little girl make it even funnier. Why not just make it Bill Clinton?

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H. J. Lee Bennett, III

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