# Oy, of all the possible jokes to make... He made \*that\* one **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 10, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969 "2014-10-10T14:57:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/1 "2014-10-10T14:57:22Z")
Guy gets into hot water after making a silly joke on a flight from the US to the Dominican Republic. On a US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Punta Cana, a passenger sneezed and said: “I’ve got Ebola, you’re all screwed”. And, well, the rest is history. > **['Idiot' US Airways Passenger Makes Ebola Joke, Hazmat Team Shows Up](https://mashable.com/archive/ebola-plane-joke)** > > 'Idiot' US Airways Passenger Makes Ebola Joke, Hazmat Team Shows Up > **[Ebola joke rattles passengers on US Airways flight to Dominican Republic](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/10/ebola-joke-rattles-passengers-on-us-airways-flight-to-dominican-republic/)** > > Totally hilarious: "I have Ebola. You're all screwed." :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/2 "2014-10-10T16:11:52Z")
And then someone else yelled, ‘I don’t want to hijack your joke, but I think it bombed!’ ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/3 "2014-10-10T16:16:24Z")
Good one, **L.A.** Laughter _is_ the best medicine. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/4 "2014-10-10T16:19:21Z")
> [@](#): > > The plane was stopped on the tarmac in Punta Cana “due to a possible health issue on board,” the airline said in a statement. Then a flight attendant told passengers to sit down and listen. > > “It’s going to look worse than it is,” she said over the PA system. “I’ve done this for 36 years. I think the man that has said this is an idiot, and I’ll say that straight out. If you hear me that’s fine.” Outstanding. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/5 "2014-10-10T16:21:56Z")
Well, dude’s gonna have a really memorable vacation, that much he can be sure of… And we wonder why the cabin crews are cranky. Good for the chief attendant for expressing everyone’s feelings. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/6 "2014-10-10T17:19:38Z")
2319!!! 2319!! ---
**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:** [October 10, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/7 "2014-10-10T17:48:38Z")
Talk about a sick joke! ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/8 "2014-10-10T18:05:44Z")
Some people don’t come with logic filters. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/9 "2014-10-10T18:13:45Z")
Word to the wise. Never make a joke about high explosives to young relatives as they are getting in the car to go to the airport. Did you know little kids REALLY like the sound of the words “high explosives”? Tell em. You’ll see. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/10 "2014-10-10T18:40:05Z")
Maybe he just really needed a full cavity search and didn’t have the money to pay for one himself. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/11 "2014-10-10T19:23:53Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#): > > 2319!!! 2319!! Too soon, dude. Too soon. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/12 "2014-10-11T05:49:38Z")
I’m all for tasteless, shocking, shameless jokes-if they’re funny. I don’t think this was funny. If he’d said “I just blew the Captain, and he looked like he had ebola”, that \*might \*have been funny. This was something a 6th grader would say. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/13 "2014-10-11T06:05:16Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > I’m all for tasteless, shocking, shameless jokes-if they’re funny. > > I don’t think this was funny. If he’d said “I just blew the Captain, and he looked like he had ebola”, that \*might \*have been funny. > > This was something a 6th grader would say. If you said something like that, and got the entire flight delayed, I doubt anyone else would find that funny either. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/14 "2014-10-11T07:47:25Z")
Venue was clearly wrong because only one stranger had to not get it to cause massively annoying response … but I laughed reading it. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/15 "2014-10-11T08:50:34Z")
It’s a bad joke, but I can’t think of any way to improve it. Claiming he had Bird Flu or Hantavirus just isn’t timely enough. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/16 "2014-10-11T12:18:26Z")
I sorta feel bad for the guy. Yeah, it was a stupid thing to say (and it certainly didn’t bring the funny), but who among us hasn’t opened mouth without thinking? mmm ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/17 "2014-10-11T12:19:01Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > It’s a bad joke, but I can’t think of any way to improve it. Claiming he had Bird Flu or Hantavirus just isn’t timely enough. Maybe he could have said nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/18 "2014-10-11T15:04:12Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > but who among us hasn’t opened mouth without thinking? When do I _not_ open my mouth without thinking? ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/19 "2014-10-11T15:08:00Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > he’d said “I just blew the Captain, and he looked like he had ebola”, that \*might \*have been funny. There’s an “Ebola Gay” joke in there somewhere… ---
**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:** [October 11, 2014, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/20 "2014-10-11T15:18:56Z")
No, it was up to the guy next to him to deliver the better joke… _sneeze_ Say, you didn’t just sneeze Ebola all over me, did you? Of course not! Well, good. The last guy didn’t tell me right away. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969.md?page=2)