[Magdalen] Borst joke ever

[Scott Knitter]

Someone had spray-painted on every overpass for a long stretch of a Detroit
freeway a plea on behalf of a political prisoner:

FREE RODRIGUEZ

On the last of the overpasses, someone added

...WITH ANY PURCHASE

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:17 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Saw a huge sign:
>
> F O R . L E A S E
> 901-555-1212
>
> But the number has been written over in spray paint, so the sign actually
> reads
>
> F O R . L E A S E
> [N A V I D A D]
>
>
> 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 Thu, May 21, 2015 at 5:15 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > One individual named Jen Kirkman says the joke that changed his life was
> >
> > --
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > 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
> >>
> >
> >
>



-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA