Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site whuxi.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!whuxi!ktw From: ktw@whuxi.UUCP (WOLMAN) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: The Only Joke in "Silkwood" Message-ID: <190@whuxi.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 14:43:14 EST Article-I.D.: whuxi.190 Posted: Wed Dec 12 14:43:14 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Dec-84 04:04:18 EST Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany, N.J. Lines: 25 One of the few light moments in "Silkwood," otherwise the most depressing films I've ever seen, was a story told to her at work, which I recall as follows: For as long as anyone could remember, an old man in an Indian tribe had been responsible for naming the newborn children. One of the braves began to wonder how the old man managed to come up with the names he did; and one day the brave summoned his courage and went to the old man and asked him how he picked out a child's name. The old man was silent for a while, then answered: "I look around me at my surroundings when I learn that a child has been born, and name that child appropriately. When I learned of your father's birth, I heard a jackal howling in the woods, and so named him Howling Jackal. When your mother was born, I heard of it while standing by a running brook, so she was named Running Brook. Now, tell me why you want to know, Two Dogs Fucking. . . ." Ken Wolman Bell Communications Research whuxi!ktw