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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

965.0. "Why do canibals _not_ eat...?" by AUSSIE::WHORLOW (Bushies do it for FREE!) Tue May 19 1992 20:34

    G'day,
    
     On the lighter side of these challenging days...
    
     There is a joke(?) going around Sydney right now which goes like
    this...
    
    
    
    Why do canibals not eat comedians?
    
    
    The answer:
    
    
    
    
    Because the may taste funny!
    
    
    
    Now it occurs to me that maybe canibals do not eat motor mechanics,
    programmers and other trades and professsions for eaqually strange
    reasons - but I just, for the life of me, have not been able to come up
    with those reasons.....
    
    
    
    Come on j'-o'-lexers, help me out.....please
    
    
    
    
    derek
    
    
    
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965.1PASTIS::MONAHANhumanity is a trojan horseTue May 19 1992 23:213
    	For programmers, maybe they don't like getting bits stuck in their
    teeth. Also, they prefer larger meals - in a word, two bytes is
    insufficient.
965.2Obvious ...ULYSSE::WADEWed May 20 1992 04:134
	They avoid programmers because of the risk of 
	catching a code.  In the node.

965.3SSDEVO::EGGERSAnybody can fly with an engine.Wed May 20 1992 09:171
    Because they can't C.
965.4KAOFS::S_BROOKWed May 20 1992 09:371
Motor mechanics because they grind their teeth.
965.5May be a little backwards.RICKS::PHIPPSWed May 20 1992 10:581
     I would have said, motor mechanics because of the grease. 8^)
965.6SSDEVO::EGGERSAnybody can fly with an engine.Wed May 20 1992 15:153
    Cannibals don't eat X because of the grease (oil).

    There are lots of possible candidates for X.
965.7Sondheim plays this gameTHEBAY::GOODMANThat was Zen, this is TaoWed May 20 1992 18:3321
In _Sweeney_Todd,_the_Demon_Barber_of_Fleet_Street_, there's a song called 
something like "Have a Bit of Priest" which has some jokes like this...

It's priest.  Try a bit of priest. 
	Is it any good?
Sir, it's too good, at least.
Then again, they don't commit sins of the flesh,
So it's pretty fresh...

	...the clergy is really too coarse and too mealy.
Try actor, that's compacter.
	Yes, and always arrives overdone...

How about some tinker?
	Something pinker.
Some potter?
	Something hotter.
Some Tailor?
	Paler.
Locksmith?
	...
965.8I first heard this in the 4th grade. (it was funny, then)CUPMK::SLOANECommunication is the keyThu May 21 1992 06:086
Why don't cannibals eat old maids and old bachelors?




They hate leftovers.
965.9DATABS::LASHERWorking...Thu May 21 1992 08:095
    Why would a health-conscious cannibal decline to eat H. Ross Perot?
    
    Too rich.
    
Lew Lasher
965.10PAOIS::HILLAnything goes, except incest & folk-danceFri May 22 1992 06:0919
    Re .9
    
    Was that politically correct?
    
    Does it offend against the Conference policies?
    
    Does it matter?
    
    :-)  :-)
    
    Why won't a cannibal eat a pound of politician's brains?
    
    Either:
    	They've never been used so they're too expensive
    
    Or:
    	You have to kill too many politicians to get a pound of brains.
    
    Nick