Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site vcvax1.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!think!mit-eddie!cybvax0!vcvax1!eli From: eli@vcvax1.UUCP (eli) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: broken reality Message-ID: <140@vcvax1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 11:03:56 EST Article-I.D.: vcvax1.140 Posted: Tue Nov 5 11:03:56 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 06:40:50 EST Distribution: net Organization: VenturCom Inc., Cambridge, MA Lines: 59 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? -------------------------------------- "Drop kick me, Jesus, through the goal-posts of life" Elias Israel {cybvax0,mit-eddie}!vcvax1!eli