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From: jay@rochester.UUCP (Jay Weber)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Old jokes
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Date: Sun, 22-Apr-84 13:05:46 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 22 13:05:46 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 23-Apr-84 07:06:25 EST
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This has come up before, but never with a satisfactory explanation:

Why do we keep seeing the same jokes over and over again?

Today I looked at the last day or so's jokes, and saw all these jokes
that have appeared at least once not so long ago:  1) the martians and
the gas pump, 2) Karnac and Sis Boom Bah, 3) 31Oct=25Dec, and 4) the
plastic surgeon.  I won't even mention all the light bulb jokes that
have been repeated, nor the rooster jokes.  What gives?  Is there some
site on the net that has a daemon that recycles these?  Or do people
submit jokes they recently heard, not remembering that they read them
here?

It's a little annoying, but not much -- I'm mostly curious.  Anybody
have any insights?  Followups should probably go in net.jokes.d.

Jay Weber
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jay@rochester.arpa