Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-null!marantz From: marantz@null.DEC (Josh HL02-2/G11 DTN 225-4394) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Surreal penguins [net.jokes] Message-ID: <2517@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 09:03:03 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.2517 Posted: Thu Jun 6 09:03:03 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Jun-85 04:03:15 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 47 [qwertyuiop] > Two penguins were in a tub. > > One said to the other "Pass the clock" Now wait a minute. I've seen a bunch of "surreal" jokes here, and not only are they not at all funny, but they have nothing to do with surrealism. They look more like output from a random word generator. A while back there was a good surrealist lightbulb joke and I think people have gotten the impression that anything that doesn't make any sense is just as funny: How many surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb? Two: one to hold the giraffe and one to fill the bathtub with brightly colored machine tools. Don't ya get it? The vision of the act of changing a lightbulb is obscured by the ... OH NEVER MIND, HERE'S MY JOKE: (stolen from National Lampoon) What's red and bubbly and scratches at glass? A baby in a microwave. -Josh