Re: HUMOR: museum people

["C. Laibly" <laibly@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>]

Mr. Pitt,
        If you follow this list for any length of time, you will find
Betty to be a light-hearted caring kind of person. A joke by any other
name..is still just a joke.  The crash was indeed a tragedy, Betty's sense
of humor is not. If I only had a dollar for every plane, train, car, and
boat crash joke that involved St. Peter....

                                    Respectfully,  Chad Laibly 

On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Betty Cunningham wrote:

> 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?
> > >
>