Re: HUMOR: museum people

[Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

Apologises.   No offense or crudity was meant.  The joke was sent as it
appeared in sci.bio.paleontology in it's entirety, and I am not it's
author.

-Betty Cunningham
(who does own a tv and is frequently behind in current events)

Darryl Pitt wrote:
> 
> Beyond a matter of poor taste...and apart from the fact that a young cousin
> perished on SA111, your apparent need to unnecessarily use a plane crash as
> a device in the telling of a joke ON THE VERY HEELS of such a tragedy is
> nothing less than pathological.
> 
> At 11:29 AM 9/3/98 -0700, Betty Cunningham wrote:
> >from sci.bio.paleontology
> >
> >Engineering Calculations wrote:
> >>
> >> Then there was this plane crash. There was a Museum Docent, a Curator
> >> of Vertebrate Paleontology and the Museum Director who were killed and
> >> go up before St. Peter..
> >>
> >> Saint Peter tells them there is a test to get into heaven as heaven is
> >> pretty crowded.. First he shows a saber tooth cat skull to the docent
> >> and asks him to give its common name. The docent replys "saber tooth
> >> cat" and is admitted to heaven.
> >>
> >> Next, St. Peter asks the curator to give its scientific name. He
> >> quickly says, "Smilodon Californius" and St. Peter says, go right in.
> >>
> >> St. Peter then quickly places the skull behind his back and says to
> >> the Museum Director, OK, what's its catalog number?
> >