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From: lindley@ut-ngp.UUCP (John L. Templer)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: a curious rot-13'ed joke
Message-ID: <1363@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 22:56:49 EST
Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.1363
Posted: Fri Feb 22 22:56:49 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 27-Feb-85 05:02:21 EST
Organization: U.Texas Physics Department; Austin, Texas
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Saw the following interesting joke recently:

> From pfc1@bunny.UUCP (Paul Chaput) Thu Feb 14 14:14:09 1985
> Subject: Joke (rot 13)

> 4 `Ta fgTaW\aZ ba T Uhfl fgeXXg VbeaXe fXXf T U_\aW `Ta j\g[ T fXX\aZ XlX WbZ
>  TggX`cg\aZ gb Vebff g[X fgeXXg. G[X WbZ WeTZf g[X U_\aW `Ta bhg \agb g[X Uhfl
>  fgeXXg j\g[bhg jT\g\aZ Ybe g[X geTYY\V/Vebff\aZ _\Z[gf, Uhg WbXf fhVVXffYh__l
>  ZXg [\` TVebff g[X fgeXXg. 6bag\ah\aZ TVebff g[X bg[Xe \agXefXVg\ba g[X WbZ 
>  WbXf g[X fT`X g[\aZ TZT\a, fg\__ j\g[bhg WT`TZ\aZ g[X U_\aW `Ta. G[X `Ta g[Tg
>  fXXf g[\f VT__f bhg gb g[X U_\aW `Ta TaW Tf^f "7b lbh eXT_\mX g[X WTaZXebhf jTl lbhe WbZ [X_cXW lbh TVebff g[X fgeXXg?" TaW cebVXXWXW gb Z\iX T U_bj Ul U_bj
>  WXfVe\cg\ba, gb j[\V[ g[X U_\aW `Ta _\fgXaXW dh\Xg_l , TaW g[Xa eXc_\XW "g[Ta^  lbh iXel `hV[" TaW VT__XW gb g[X WbZ , eh`TZ\aZ T WbZZl U\fdh\g Yeb` [\f VbTg
>  cbV^Xg. G[X bg[Xe `Ta, f[bV^XW Ul fhV[ \eba\V UX[Ti\be Tf^f "j[l TeX lbh Zb\aZ
>  gb eXjTeW g[\f WbZ Ybe T_`bfg ZXgg\aZ lbh ^\__XW ?". Gb j[\V[ g[X U_\aW `Ta 
>  eXc_\Xf, "<'` abg, <'` ]hfg Zb\aZ gb Y\aW [\f [XTW fb g[Tg < VTa ^\V^ [\` \a
>  g[X UT__f."

After a little work, I managed the following decoding:

A man standing on a busy street corner sees a blind man with a seeing eye dog
 attempting to cross the street. The dog drags the blind man out into the busy
 street without waiting for the traffic/crossing lights, but does successfully
 get him across the street. Continuing across the other intersection the dog 
 does the same thing again, still without damaging the blind man. The man that
 sees this calls out to the blind man and asks "Do you realize the dangerous way your dog helped you across the street?" and proceeded to give a blow by blow
 description, to which the blind man listened quietly , and then replied "thank  you very much" and called to the dog , rumaging a doggy bisquit from his coat
 pocket. The other man, shocked by such ironic behavior asks "why are you going
 to reward this dog for almost getting you killed ?". To which the blind man 
 replies, "I'm not, I'm just going to find his head so that I can kick him in
 the balls."

 It seems the origional poster had applied the equivalent of 'tr A-z
 4-m' to the joke, i.e. he had subtracted 13 from each character
 lexicaly between A and z.  Maybe he should have posted it to
 net.puzzles? :-)
-- 

                                           John L. Templer
                                     University of Texas at Austin

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