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From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Strange poem: YANU
Message-ID: <796@loral.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 16:21:53 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 26 16:21:53 1985
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Reply-To: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard)
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Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego, CA
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Summary: 

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>Perhaps we should do like the prisoners in the old saw, and just assign
>numbers? Then new users could always post:
>
>    "I know it's old, but remember 129?

	For those who don't recall the old saw:

	A new inmate arrived at a certain maximum-security prison, and
settled in.  He soon noticed that everyone in the cell block would
occasionally call out a number loudly, and the rest of the block's
population would laugh uproariously.  He asked his cellmate, and was
told that everyone had told all the jokes they knew so many times that
they had simply numbered them for convenience.  "See, I'll show you..."
he said, and called out "107!", receiving a bedlam of mirth in return.
"See, you try it!" he suggested to the newcomer.  "OK, well...(loudly)
83!"  Nothing.  He tried again: "147" - still nothing.  "What's
wrong?" he asked his cellmate.

	"Well, I guess some folks can tell a joke, and some just can't!"
-- 

[     I am not a stranger, but a friend you haven't met yet     ]

Ray Simard
Loral Instrumentation, San Diego
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...Though we may sometimes disagree,
   You are still a friend to me!