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Subject: captive crowd - breaking the ice
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Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 15:15:05 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 30 15:15:05 1984
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This is from the Philadelphia Inquirer 10/28

Adapted by this writer


	Elevator crowds are the loneliest groups of people.

	The other day I got into the elevator in my office building and
stood quietly with twenty other silent souls as the doors closed and we
started up.  Suddenly the peace was broken by a man in the front of the
car.  Without turning to face us he exclaimed "OK, What does John the
Baptist have in common with Winnie the Pooh?"....

 This was greeted with embarrassed looks but no response.

	The elevator doors opened at the man's floor and as he stepped
out into the hall a soft whisper came from the rear, "Well?".  The man
turned and as the doors closed he was heard to say "The same middle name!".

	Eli Levine - AT&T Computer Systems Division @ Summit, N.J.