# Catch 22, Doc Daneeka and the Newlyweds

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catch-22-doc-daneeka-and-the-newlyweds/330023>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 8, 2005, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catch-22-doc-daneeka-and-the-newlyweds/330023 "2005-11-08T08:28:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catch-22-doc-daneeka-and-the-newlyweds/330023/41 "2015-07-31T23:55:14Z")

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He may have been knocking on Heaven’s door, but that doesn’t mean he was able to get in. Sometimes it takes more than one try! :smack:

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**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catch-22-doc-daneeka-and-the-newlyweds/330023/42 "2015-08-01T07:31:19Z")

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Guys, the guy was mad because of the Saint Anthony joke, which he figured out way later. This part is not included in the quote from this thread, but you can find it at the beginning of chapter 5, page 22 in my book version.

Yossarian also basically explains this afterwards, which leads to a recall of “who is saint Anthony?”.

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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catch-22-doc-daneeka-and-the-newlyweds/330023/43 "2015-08-01T15:36:46Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> So you’re saying the point of the joke was satirizing the censorship of the time? I have to admit I don’t see it that way myself.

No. It is PART OF the censorship of the time. The writers of around 1960-70 or so could include raunchy topics and stories… but only in veiled, indirect language. Earlier, they couldn’t tell such stories at all, or only in much, much more indirect ways. Later, they could say fuck all they wanted to.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/catch-22-doc-daneeka-and-the-newlyweds/330023/44 "2015-08-01T18:09:11Z")

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> [@Fear\_Itself](#):
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> I’ll give you distressing, but ridiculous? At least turds don’t come out of the vagina.

Whatever.

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