# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/21 "2014-10-11T15:41:40Z")
> [@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. …and flushing him out the back D.B. Cooper style would probably mean consquences later on the ground. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/22 "2014-10-11T15:45:08Z")
> [@Flywheel](#): > > There’s an “Ebola Gay” joke in there somewhere… Best told on a non-stop flight from San Fran to Hiroshima. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/23 "2014-10-11T16:05:29Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > …and flushing him out the back D.B. Cooper style would probably mean consquences later on the ground. It was an international flight; the chances of landing on, say, a [runner](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coast-guard-rescues-man-running-across-ocean-bubble-n218496) in the middle of the ocean is infinitesimally small. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/24 "2014-10-11T18:16:27Z")
“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.” WOW!!! That flight attendant deserves the Nobel Prize for “having the balls to tell the truth and NOT being afraid of the bosses in the corporate office”. * * * (on edit: I just realized that the flight attendant is female. But she still deserves praise for having balls. 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/25 "2014-10-17T00:03:20Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > If you said something like that, and got the entire flight delayed, I doubt anyone else would find that funny either. The same thing if you said something like that. You are restating the obvious. Are you trying to make this into a pissing contest?? I don’t care who on the flight thought it was/wasn’t funny, it wasn’t. It wouldn’t be funny in any contingency. Not because of cause or effect, but because of weak subject matter, delivery, and construction. Just because you are unclear as to what is funny/not funny, doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be funny. It just wasn’t, in this case. Same for the entire flight delay-if it’s funny, it’s funny. The result/cost of the funniness is irrelevant. At any rate, the joke wasn’t funny, irrespective of who found it so or no. I didn’t claim that mine was funny, it was only an example of something/anything funnier than the joke from the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/26 "2014-10-17T00:40:16Z")
I laughed as I shook my head. I’m not sure if I’m laughing at the joke or at the audacity of saying it though. Then I really laughed when I read **Amateur Barbarian** ’s version. Save me a seat in the hand basket please. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/27 "2014-10-17T01:03:08Z")
This is the kind of public offense that prompts calls to bring back bull whipping ---
**Author:** ![Peaton\_of\_peat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecae2f/32.png) [@Peaton\_of\_peat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peaton_of_peat)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/28 "2014-10-17T05:34:57Z")
> [@Flywheel](#): > > There’s an “Ebola Gay” joke in there somewhere… I read this and less then a minute later I run across [this Ramirez cartoon](http://i.imgur.com/SlXU8HB.gif). Obviously didn’t put enough effort into it to get it to make a lick of sense, but that’s good enough, right? ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/29 "2014-10-17T06:08:41Z")
Well, I think airlines and their passengers need to calm the hell down. Stay at home and finger your worry beads. ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/30 "2014-10-17T14:17:49Z")
“That man has to be gotten to a hospital!” ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/31 "2014-10-17T14:42:05Z")
“The hospital?!? What is it?” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/32 "2014-10-17T14:47:39Z")
“It’s a big building with patients, but that’s not important right now.” This story reminds me of the time I went through expedited airport security. A TSA worker swabbed my hands to test for residue from explosives and I told her it was going to come back positive for chocolate. As soon as I said it I was terrified for about 0.3 seconds, but she did nothing because it would’ve been ridiculous. I’m not sure if I blame the passenger or the airline here because the details are contradictory. If he just sneezed and made a joke, they overreacted. If he was sneezing and coughing throughout the flight, _then_ said he’d been to Africa and made a joke about Ebola, he’s a jackass. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/33 "2014-10-21T06:32:31Z")
We all _really_ need to find our happy place before boarding any airplane. Acting out on any level whatsoever just isn’t worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/34 "2014-10-21T15:32:54Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > We all _really_ need to find our happy place before boarding any airplane. Acting out on any level whatsoever just isn’t worth it. Just announce that if anyone makes trouble, the people sitting in front of them have permission to recline their seats. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969/35 "2014-10-21T16:34:54Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > 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. If a guy with ebola ejaculates, does blood come out? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oy-of-all-the-possible-jokes-to-make-he-made-that-one/700969.md?page=1)