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From: eli@vcvax1.UUCP (eli)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: broken reality
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 11:03:56 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 11:03:56 1985
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	This is a bizzare (oh no, there's that word again. I thought we
	outlawed that word on the net. :-) story that can only be described
	by the concept "broken reality". The concept goes as follows:

	You see, the world that we live in is not quite right. Its as
	though a few of the essential parameters were incorrect when
	it was created (came to be, whatever). This is why things happen
	that ordinarily would seem too wierd to believe (except that we
	witness them happening every day.)

	Any number of things can display this concept. Things I have seen
	(honest to god) in my own life. Like Nancy Reagan on the cover of Life.
	Like double-decker busses wearing giant walkman headphones. Like
	six-foot frogs handing out promotional literature. Some people insist
	that there are logical explanations for these, but we know better :-)


	Anyway, the joke.


	A farmhorse and an old racehorse were in the stables one day when the
	farmhorse says:

	"I hear you ain't never lost a race"

	"Yep" -- says the race horse.

	"Well, I think I can beat ya, ya old nag."

	And so they laid out a course. When both horses were ready, they
	began. From the beginning the race horse was way out front with the
	farm horse running his heart out to catch up. About halfway through
	the course, the race horse looks back and sees the farm horse pumping
	away, frothing at the mouth and he feels sorry for the farm horse. He
	decides to let him win. Eventaully, bones creaking, muscles snapping
	from the effort, the farm horse crosses the finish line. With a 
	smile on his face, he slows to a stop, falls over and dies.

	"Well," says the race horse, "at least he died happily".

	At this point, two cows that had been watching the race come over and
	say:
	"Hey, that means you're not the fastest anymore, right?"

	The horse looks up and says "Holy sh*t! Talking Cows!"



	Pretty broken, huh?


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"Drop kick me, Jesus, through the goal-posts of life"


Elias Israel
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