Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site npois.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!bellcore!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ahuta!npois!jay From: jay@npois.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: more on no soap, radio Message-ID: <274@npois.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 09:44:26 EST Article-I.D.: npois.274 Posted: Tue Apr 9 09:44:26 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Apr-85 14:59:16 EST Organization: ATTIS, Neptune, NJ Lines: 29 Two examples of "authentic" no soap, radio jokes (by authentic I mean that I heard them before 1965): There once was a large pink whale. He was the biggest pink whale ever to swim the ocean. He was swimming in the North sea, and realized that he was very cold, so he swam south to the Azores, where he decided he was too warm. So he swam North to Greenland, but found that he was too cold....[ many iterations ] ... so this time he swam very far south to Antarctica, where he found a large square hole in the ice. On seeing this, he waved his tail high in the air, and shouted "No soap, Radio !" A trollish witch came upon a friend of hers stirring something putrid in a boiling cauldron. [ greetings exchanged ] So what are you making ? Beams of Daylight ! [ long conversation about doubting the claim to be making beams of daylight ]. It smells like you are making soap! at which point the cook pulls out an old latin tome titled "Non Soap, Rai Deo". Please forgive misspelled Latin, its not my first language. Anton Winteroak. PS. The story about No Soap Radio being an experiment that got out of hand may be true, I never heard it before, and as I said, I have some relatives that claim it was part of a promotion for a radio station in southern New England. I have no first hand proof either way.