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Subject: OT: Dark humor (Re: No sound, no mouse and now X applications
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Daniel Underwood <djuatdelta@gmail.com> wrote:
> Aside:
>
> > My Bonnie looked into a gas tank,
> > The height of its contents to see!
> > She lit a small match to assist her,
> > Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me.
>
> Hah... I like that.  Dark, but witty.

I first heard it some 50 years ago,
and it was not new even then :)

I wouldn't be surprised if it dated
from the turn of the last century,
when some gasoline-powered automobiles
may not have had fuel gauges.