Joke of the week [477 = year 10, #9] "skeleton crew" (sick 5) (September 5, 2011 - September 11, 2011)  

Q: What happened to the ship that sank in a lake full of piranhas?
A: It returned with a skeleton crew
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* (sick) pun on the literal versus the idiomatic meaning of "skeleton crew"  1) http://www.dict.cc/?s=skeleton+crew     
     2) http://de.bab.la/woerterbuch/englisch-deutsch/skeleton-crew    3) http://www.linguee.de/englisch-deutsch/uebersetzung/skeleton+crew.html 

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