CHAT: totally off-topic linguistic humor

As a break from our (extremely sober) discussion of givenness
hierarchies and 'existential voice' (quoth the raven), here's
something to break the ice.  Jim McCawley, of blessed memory,
was not just a linguist, but a humorist as well.

<http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002122.html#more>

I have personal experience of '17 May 1966':  when I saw Ross
again at CLS last month, he told me no less than three dirty
jokes, one involving necrophilia and railroads (!!!).  John
Goldsmith nearly fell over laughing...

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