[RKDinOKC]

Was eating lunch at a friendly little cafe with some co-workers. One of those places where the owner runs the register, remembers everyone's name, and goes around to chat with the patrons. This one day while he is chatting he asks if anyone at our table is offended by ethinic jokes. I said, "No, not as long as they are about minorities." He and everyone within ear shot cracked up. He tried several times to start telling the joke, then would look at me, and crack up again. He finally apologized and gave up trying to tell the joke..

When the first Star Trek movie came out the very first screening at the local theater was in the afternoon. I was working night shift at the time so some fellow co-workers and myself decided to go see it. There was quite a line and we were near the front. A local news crew came buy and was interviewing the people in line. When they got to me they asked if I was a Trekkie and if I thought the movie was going to be a good one. I replied, "Movie!?...I thought this was the line for the free government cheese." Everyone cracked up and the other people in line let our little group move to the front.

A couple of years later one of the co-workers had taken a trip to Colorado and on his drive back a snow storm hit closing the roads and he had to spend the night on a cot in a small town's high school gym. The next morning while he was in a line of cars waiting for the snow plows to clear the highway. A Denver news crew came by and was interviewing those caught in the storm and waiting to resume their travels. When they got to my friend he said, "Get back on the highway!?...I thought this was the line for the free government cheese." The reporter and camera crew cracked up and the camera man was so tickled he slipped and fell. The family he was visiting called him and said he made the Denver TV news.