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From: jay@npoiv.UUCP ()
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: I give up
Message-ID: <4099@npoiv.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Mar-85 18:19:44 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 12 18:19:44 1985
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From Anton Winteroak
To   All you people in net.jokes land
Re   I give up.

	I don't know how many of you are regular readers of net.jokes
for a long time, but it can't be many.
	I guess it was foolish to expect that joke quality would go up
if I tried to set a good example by using basically fresh material,
never putting form feeds in riddles, not bludgeoning an already stupid
joke to death (74, joke schema, etc.) avoiding retelling jokes that everyone
over the age of 10 has heard (elephant, dead baby, light bulb, ethnic, etc)
        I realize now that it can never get better. People who share my dream
for a news group with a few good (mostly) new jokes just don't stay around
long enough, and high school hackers, and CS major freshmen have an
enthusiastic tolerence for repeating old garbage.
	I don't think that the solution is to create a new group
(net.jokes.new). The above mentioned people wouldn't know the difference
between new and fifty years old. Net.Jokes.Original maybe. Well anyway
anybody with any sense doesn't read net.jokes anymore, so what's the point
in trying.
	If you have flames, as Pythagorus would tell you, 'don't eat beans'.
Or as Smokey Bear would tell you, 'don't play with matches'. Either way
you won't have flames. If you have something useful to say, send it to
...!npois!jay. I am not usually on npoiv.