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From: wall@fortune.UUCP (Jim Wall)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Stop the Repeat Offenders !
Message-ID: <5030@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 11:57:34 EST
Article-I.D.: fortune.5030
Posted: Thu Feb 21 11:57:34 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 21-Feb-85 20:21:55 EST
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Reply-To: wall@fortune.UUCP (Jim wall)
Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA
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>
>- Classify and number the repeat jokes.  Only the joke number need be
>  posted.  Interested netters can then look up the joke in a published
>  index.  This has the adantage of saving large amounts of disk space
>  and communication time.
>
>					Larry Johnson
>					ihnp4!wnuxb!laj

   This type of thing always reminds me of the joke tellers convention 
where they did the same thing. Everyone there heard the jokes so many
times that they just numbered them all. 

   So to tell a joke, someone would stand up and say the number of the
joke, and everyone would remember the joke and laugh. So to get on with 
the joke, someone stands up and says "151", and everyone laughs loudly.
Another person stands up and says "That reminds me of 211"; even more
laughter. And a third person rises and says: "Who could forget 24?". 
There, again is a good deal of laughter, it all dies down except for
one person who can't stop laughing. He goes on and on, tears running 
down his face and the whole bit. The head joke teller leans over to a
friend and asks why this guy is laughing so hard. His friend replies:

"He never heard that one before."

Not too funny, huh? Well, it won't get better.

   Finally, it all quiets down, and the joke telling goes on. More
numbers called out with uproarious laughter for each one. Finally, a
Usenet user stands up and says "83", there is a very small amount of
laughter, which dies out almost immediately. The head joke teller
leans over to his friend and says: "Boy, some people just can't 
tell a joke."

All done.
						-Jim