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Subject: New jokes?
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Date: Sat, 28-Apr-84 10:11:10 EDT
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Posted: Sat Apr 28 10:11:10 1984
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Concerning  New jokes?  (or  New jokes (?) ):

I note that my last contributions (?) to net.jokes were made up by me,
to the best of my knowledge.  (They were "proofs" that all odd numbers
are prime -- plus one disproof).  However, even here, when one is not
consciously passing on a joke, there is a danger that one re-invents
the joke, either because it's in the "back of one's mind" (one has
heard it before, but forgotten that one has heard it), or because one
truly re-invents it, perhaps because it's a fairly obvious construction.

Also, one probably ought to distinguish between jokes and the forms of
jokes.  There is a fairly old contention that there are only a relatively
small number of joke-patterns in common circulation -- they just get
instantiated differently as time goes on.

          Gordon Fisher