From uhog.mit.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!looking!funny-request Mon, 8 Apr 96 19:30:04 EDT Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Organization: Not Much From: alasnik@indiana.edu (Adam Lasnik) Subject: Breaking up is hard to do... Keywords: smirk Approved: funny-request@clari.net Path: uhog.mit.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!looking!funny-request Message-ID: Date: Mon, 8 Apr 96 19:30:04 EDT Lines: 56 BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO... especially when you share the same major! written by ADAM LASNIK, alasnik@indiana.edu webpage: http://adam.eigenmann.indiana.edu/ <--lots of humor and more :) or: http://pobox.com/~music PSYCHOLOGY: Girl accuses guy of just using her as a substitute for his Mother. SOCIOLOGY: Each claims to have been oppressed in the relationship. RELIGION: Each prays for reconcilliation and/or curses God ARCHAEOLOGY: One tries to bury the past, and accuses the other of trying to dig it up. THEATRE: "OH MY GOD! Life is... ENDED... as we KNOW it!" BIOLOGY: "You just wanted to get in my genes!" PHYSICS: Both resign themselves to the fact that what goes up must come down. JOURNALISM: "Today was the end of an era. Jack, 19, and Jill, 18, called an end to their relationship of 2 weeks..." WOMEN'S STUDIES: "HE did it!" BUSINESS: Both decide that they're spending way too much money together, and that it's simply cheaper to be single. ITALIAN: "Mama Mia!" HISTORY: Each party argues the breakup was caused by something the other party did in the past. GEOGRAPHY: Both people decide to simply move far away to avoid each other. ANATOMY: "I never liked your body anyway." ECONOMICS: One party demands more than the other can supply. ENGLISH: Each writes the other a perfect breakup letter, complete with introduction, thesis, body, and conclusion, that doesn't really say anything substantively intelligible. EDUCATION: Both concede that the relationship was a learning experience. COMPUTING: "Man, this bytes -- we just couldn't interface" and/or "His hard drive was more like a floppy." E. ENGINEER.: "It's just so shocking... I'm sure there are positives and negatives, but..." [okay, yes, I know you're groaning ;-)] ARCHITECTURE: "There just wasn't much to build on anyway..." JEWISH STUDIES: "OY! You should feel so guilty!" PHILOSOPHY: If 2 people break up in a dorm and there's no one to witness the breakup, are they really single? ZOOLOGY: They were able to mate like banshees, but lacked sophisticated communication skills. PHYS. ED.: They punch each other out in frustration. CHEMISTRY: They turn to hard drugs to relieve the pain. COUNSELING: Each urges the other to "get help!" MUSIC: Each utilizes an operatic lament (or, in Tennessee, a country song) to express his or her sorrow. LAW: They sue each other for breach of a pre-dating agreement. -- Selected by Jim Griffith. MAIL your joke to funny@clari.net. If you mail to original@clari.net, it makes sure that your joke is tagged as your original work, Always attribute the source of a joke, whether it's you, or somebody else.