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From: tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: jokes without credit again
Message-ID: <141@pyuxii.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Jun-85 08:09:07 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 18 08:09:07 1985
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Julian, just to set the record straight, the jokes you read
in this network are rarely, if ever, made up.  They are
repeated from many sources.  Jokes are NOT copyrighted.  They
are passed around, repeated, stolen, used, etc..  There have
been thousands of jokes in Playboy that I have heard before.
Does Playboy mention any credit?  Noooooo.  Does any comedian
mention the source of their jokes?  Nooooo.   Giving credit
for a joke is nothing short of impossible if you think about
it for a moment.  Do you give credit for jokes you repeat?
I can see it now:

Scene....a bar...Julian sitting quietly listening.
He overhears a joke being told by another customer.

New scene.....at work .....Julian stops to talk to a friend.

Julian:  Hi Bill.   I just heard a new joke.  Credit for this
	joke goes to Sam West of 456 East Main Street, Podunk
	City, Anystate.  Sam West gave his source for the Joke
	as Jack Smith, a barber, at 678 First Ave.  Jack gave
	credit as having read the joke in Playboy, April 1967,
	page 103.  Playboy gave credit as having found the joke
	in the private collection of one Mr. Joe Blow of East
	McKeesport, Pa. who credits the writing of the joke to
	Alf Blowhard of New York City, former writer for Captain
	Billy's Whizbang.  The joke appeared in the Spring, 1901
	issue, Vol.7, page 23.

	Uhh... wait Bill, don't you want to hear the joke?

T. C. Wheeler