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Dream joke.
Jul. 24th, 2020 10:48 pmIn my dream, I told a joke. I woke up, remembered it, and realized that I had never heard it before: I had just made up a joke in my sleep. Here it is.
NASA founds a one-person test run for a colony on Mars. Due to the rigors of the mission, they search for someone who is as fastidious about waste as possible: Someone who never throws out what they can recycle, reuse, or compost. They find one guy who exceeds their expectations: He removes the staples and tape from his paper recycling even though he doesn't have to. His yard is a pristine, permaculture edible forest and pollinator garden.
They recruit him, train him for the mission, and send him to live in a pod house on Mars for five years.
At the end of that time, they send a ship to pick him up. The pilot of the landing craft steps out, and boggles at the pod. The landscape outside the airlock is strewn with scattered garbage: Food waste, plastic packaging, crumpled papers, broken electronics, etc.
The pilot goes in, and asks the guy, "What's going on? Why are you throwing stuff out the airlock? I thought you were meticulous!"
The guy replies, "Oh, that was all to save the environment. There's no life here, so fuck it."
NASA founds a one-person test run for a colony on Mars. Due to the rigors of the mission, they search for someone who is as fastidious about waste as possible: Someone who never throws out what they can recycle, reuse, or compost. They find one guy who exceeds their expectations: He removes the staples and tape from his paper recycling even though he doesn't have to. His yard is a pristine, permaculture edible forest and pollinator garden.
They recruit him, train him for the mission, and send him to live in a pod house on Mars for five years.
At the end of that time, they send a ship to pick him up. The pilot of the landing craft steps out, and boggles at the pod. The landscape outside the airlock is strewn with scattered garbage: Food waste, plastic packaging, crumpled papers, broken electronics, etc.
The pilot goes in, and asks the guy, "What's going on? Why are you throwing stuff out the airlock? I thought you were meticulous!"
The guy replies, "Oh, that was all to save the environment. There's no life here, so fuck it."
