Or they were really non-PC and inappropriate (a lot of Natalie Wood jokes right after her death, Helen Keller jokes, and "what do you call a man with no arms and no legs XXXX?").
Yeah, I remember all of those. Plus who was that teacher who died when the Space Shuttle disintegrated on launch in '86? There were a lot of jokes about her.
Bob! Eileen! Matt!
When I was a kid, we had a lot of inappropriate Challenger jokes.
Christine McAulife
ETA: Sally Ride was the first woman in space.
Why did the squirrel cross the road?
Because he was stapled to the chicken.
I promise not to post any dead baby jokes if no one else does....
Or they were really non-PC and inappropriate (a lot of Natalie Wood jokes right after her death, Helen Keller jokes, and "what do you call a man with no arms and no legs XXXX?").
Dead baby jokes were quite popular in my circle.