“You don’t need a parachute to skydive” (joke)

“You don’t need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice” is a jocular line that has been printed on ecards. The line has been cited in print since at least 1998.
 
 
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Kenneth ‘DZ’ Silver
6/24/98
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you don’t need a parachute to skydive,
you only need a parachute to skydive twice…
   
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Kenneth ‘DZ’ Silver
6/29/98
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you don’t need a parachute to skydive,
you only need a parachute to skydive twice…
 
Twitter
Brian
‏@Kateract
‘You don’t need a parachute to skydive, you only need a parachute to skydive twice.’
5:34 PM - 23 Jan 2007
 
Google Books
The Mammoth Book of One-Liners
By Geoff Tibballs
London: Constable & Robinson Ltd
2012
Pg. ?:
You don’t need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
 
Google Books
5,000 Sidesplitting Jokes and One-Liners
By Grant Tucker
London: The Robson Press
2012
Pg. ?:
You don’t need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
 
reddit
You don’t need a parachute to skydive… (self.Jokes)
submitted May 14, 2013 by kulak
You need a parachute to skydive twice.
 
reddit
You don’t need a parachute to go skydiving. (self.Jokes)
submitted March 28, 2016 by IAmNotOnRedditAtWork
You need a parachute to go skydiving twice.