To your point, I’ve done some googling of Jerry Sandusky jokes. Most of them seem like rehashes of Michael Jackson lines. The ones that were most obviously composed as a response to the most recent tragedy (‘WE ARE! PEDO STATE!’) aren’t very funny IMHO. Either way, these kinds of jokes are getting old.
Unlike those boys in the shower.
There was a study about the speed and geographical spread of the Chernobyl joke (“What has feathers and glows?” “Chicken Kiev!”) in those pre-internet days. I think they traced it to a financial trading company in Chicago, and it spread outwards from there via telephone and fax, on the day of the disaster.
I confess one of my first thoughts was “well, this’ll make everyone quit asking about why they never picked a starting quarterback.”
Some of my coworkers were making jokes a few days later, but were mostly about Sandusky in prison.
We had a fire drill on the morning of 9/11. While we were still watching news coverage we had to evacuate the building and one of my classmates joked it was because the terrorists were going to crash into our school. :rolleyes:
I heard a Michael Jackson joke before I heard he was dead.
A coworker told me a Gary Condit/terrorist joke sometime between first and second tower collapsing.
Michael Lewis talks about this in Liars Poker. The Trading Floors and Sales Desks had the old Watts lines that covered the world. Don’t have my copy around here, but I think it was the Challenger explosion that had jokes on the phone within minutes at Morgan where he worked.
My very first thought upon hearing of John Lennon’s death was, “So much for the Beatles getting back together.” (During the 1970s, it seemed like there was another Beatles-reunion rumor every month or two.)
The Chicken Kiev joke I heard after Chernobyl was:
Q. How do you cook Chicken Kiev?
A. First, heat Kiev to 9000 degrees…
Peanuthead - Bobby Kennedy jokes? Gotta admit I didn’t hear any of those - and I was in my teens at the time.
Within minutes of the shooting someone in the office said “Let’s start a pool to pick what time he dies.”:eek:
It was after midnight! What kind of an office is open that late?
Oops! Should have said withing minutes of arriving at the office in the morning as most of us didn’t even know about it till we saw the morning news. So I guess it would actually within hours of the shooting and before his death was announced officially.
The fastest I heard/saw was on the same day. That includes seeing a calendar at work with a plane smashing into each of the 1s in 11, as well as others about other terrorist attacks.