Could just be that i'm in a pessimistic mood these days but saw this joke in Dan Stone's book on Drexel Burnham "April Fools" and really captured the thought. Namely, that with some choices in life you've lost before you've even begun, you just don't know it yet:
Two professors were captured by a tribe of natives deep in the Amazon. The tribal chief turns to the first professor and asks "will you choose death or ru-ru?".
The first professor figuring to take his chances with the curious ru ru is thereupon taken by the tribal men, beaten to point of unconsciousness and thrown to a pit of savage tigers who quickly tear him apart limb from limb and kill him. His remaining body is raised up from the pit and thrown onto the floor to the horror of his colleague.
The chief then turns to the other professor and asks the same: "Death or Ru Ru?" to which he quickly and emphatically replied "Death. Absolutely Death".
"Fine", said the chief, "death it is."
"But first.... a little Ru-Ru. "
:-)
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