Julia Thompson wrote: > > Chernobyl was remote enough for a lot of us that no, we > didn't have very many of *those* jokes, and not for very > long. I think that more of the jokes were poking fun at > the idiocy of the Russians more than what was > glowing in the dark. At least, those were the jokes I > was hearing. > > But I remember that there were a whole bunch of Three > Mile Island jokes for awhile after *that* event. (...) > And probably they were the same jokes, just translated and transplaced. We had a bunch of Goiania jokes too, after our local Chernobyl in the 80s [some guys stole the radioactive stuff in a closed bankrupt medical center, and it spread to about 50 people]. But the biggest joke is the place that the g*v chose to put our first [and second, and that's all, there are only two] nuclear power plant. The thing is so heavy that it's _sinking_, because the soil was too weak. And it was placed in a local named _Itaorna_, that in Tupi means "rotten stone" :-) Alberto Monteiro
