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From: esac@ihuxr.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: RE: Generic jokes
Message-ID: <732@ihuxr.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Oct-83 11:04:07 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 27 11:04:07 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 31-Oct-83 03:36:20 EST
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The call for generic jokes reminds me of an old Burns & Schreiber
skit that went something like this.

B: There was these two mule skinners sitting on..........

S: (Interrupts) Listen.  I'm getting sicked and tired of all these
   mule skinner jokes.  They offend me and irritate me.  Tell the
   joke with some other group.  NO MORE MULE-SKINNER JOKES!

B: Ok, I'm sorry.  I didn't realize you felt like that.

  (Pause..........)

B: Ok then, there was these two Lithuanians sitting on their front
   porch skinning this mule and .......................


Jokes are almost always cruel to someone.  I thought someone once said
that the basis for comedy was tragedy.

Peace anyway!
-- 
Bill Adams
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