[Magdalen] Borst joke ever

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

One individual named Jen Kirkman says the joke that changed his life was

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When I was about 10, I saw a Gallagher special and he said, "What's the
opposite of pro-gress?  Con-gress."  He seemed a very smart man.

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James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 6:00 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> New York Magazine has a brief article, "The Joke that Changed my Life"
>
> And it leads off with a joke of a very obscure type.
>
> As a matter of fact, the teller cannot remember the joke -- only the punch
> line.
>
> It reminded me of a joke that was running around when I was in either
> middle school or junior high school, depending on how you refer to those
> years.
>
> One person would tell a story about a group of penguins.  It could be
> long, which, for this age group, meant that it went on for more than one
> sentence, and had more than five words, but I digress.
>
> At the end, the teller would say, "And then the other penguin shouted,
> 'Look! There's a radio!"
>
> The entire group then burst into laughter -- except for one guy who was
> not in on the joke.  He was the only one who did not realize that the joke
> was utterly pointless.  I was on both sides of the joke.
>
> Finally the group let him in on the fact that the joke had no meaning, and
> then he joined the rest in inflicting it upon some other luck-less
> seventh-grader.
>
> It's a wonder we survived.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>