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From: sdh@rabbit.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: A CONTEST?!
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Date: Wed, 26-Oct-83 16:18:31 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 26 16:18:31 1983
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Here it is folks! Your chance has arrived to be a comic instead
of posting (yecch) lightbulb jokes and (ugh) do-its.

The contest: take the famous kangaroo-goes-into-a-bar joke,
and rewrite it in the style of your favorite (or least favorite)
author with DISTINCTIVE style.

a facsimilie of the original joke:

A kangaroo walks into a bar and orders a beer. The bartender, thinking
the animal naive decides to take advantage of him (or her), so the barkeep
charges the kangaroo $5.00 for the libation. The kangaroo, looking a little
disgruntled, shells out the fiver.

The bartender says "we don't get many kangaroos in here"
(lookout here comes the punchline)
The kangaroo snaps back, "at five bucks a beer you won't get many more"



or something like that.

Anyhow, mail me your entries and I'll try to have a winner posted after
November 5.

But you're all saying "what's a contest without a prize?"
nothing, really. But the best I can do is threaten to post the best
(or worst) ones.

'til then, write if you get work and hang by your thumbs.

Steve Hawley