From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!luigi
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: dead man joke
Article-I.D.: hplabs.1219
Posted: Mon Feb 28 12:15:17 1983
Received: Tue Mar  1 08:43:04 1983



Well, there is this dead man who is tired of spending all his
time in the grave, and decides to get out. He's been dead for
quite a while now, and all that is left of him is bones. So he
starts pushing on the cover with great snapping and crackling,
until he manages to put it aside and is free to come out.

	It's a sunny day in June, and the cemetery is on the top
of a hill. A road unwinds gently on the hill side, and the skeleton
notices that at the base of the hill a bicyclist is starting the
ascent. He is the nature-lover, outdoor fanatic, fat and sweaty
kind of bicyclist.

	"I've got an idea: I'm going to scare the hell out of him,"
thinks the skeleton. So he hides behind a tree by the road, and waits.
The road is steep, and the bicyclist is taking his time, so the
skeleton, getting bored, lights himself a cigarette. Finally
the bicyclist, red-faced and panting, appears at the nearby curve.
The skeleton gets ready, takes the last puff, and exhaling the
smoke comes out from behind the tree and nonchalantly says:
"Boo."
The bicyclist looks up for a second and says:
"You idiot, why don't you quit smoking? Don't you see what
condition you are in?"


Luigi Semenzato - HP Labs