Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cincy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!cbosgd!qusavx!cincy!jreuter From: jreuter@cincy.UUCP (Jim Reuter) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Old Jokes Message-ID: <1180@cincy.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Apr-84 20:16:29 EDT Article-I.D.: cincy.1180 Posted: Sat Apr 28 20:16:29 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Apr-84 09:17:28 EDT References: <6462@rochester.UUCP> Organization: U. of Cincinnati ECE Lines: 17 > This has come up before, but never with a satisfactory explanation: > > Why do we keep seeing the same jokes over and over again? ... Of course there is a satisfactory explanation. To quote (somewhat inaccurately) comics Cheech and Chong: "There are only seven jokes in the world. We just repeat them in a different time and place." [ Flames about not putting this in net.jokes.d should think twice. ] Jim Reuter University of Cincinnati (decvax!cincy!jreuter)