Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!decvax!harpo!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!robison From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Are funny??? Message-ID: <879@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Mon, 14-May-84 17:38:35 EDT Article-I.D.: eosp1.879 Posted: Mon May 14 17:38:35 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 16-May-84 03:11:20 EDT Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 16 References: I'm responding to the list of "funny" book titles that was presented followed by the same set of titles in ethnic generic form. (E.g., The 's book of computer games.) The author was struck by the fact that if you don't fill in specific ethnic group names, the titles aren't funny. Well... They're not any funnier even when you do fill in the names! - Toby Robison (not Robinson!), author of the Tierra Del Fuegan's manual on manioc agriculture. allegra!eosp1!robison decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison princeton!eosp1!robison