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From: slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner)
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Subject: Fractured Tales (Forwarded)
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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 12:18:14 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 12:18:14 1985
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From:	YOGI::RROTHENBERG  "Ron Rothenberg" 30-AUG-1985 11:22
To:	@YOGI::ML:JOKES.DIS,RROTHENBERG 
Subj:	(Forwarded) (Forwarded) Fractured Fables




It was a cold day in Reykjavik, and Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer had
completed their return match. . . . Their gracious hosts had built a large
fire to keep the auditorium warm. . . the Icelanders wanted to have chess
nuts roasting on an open foyer.



People felt sorry for the poor little Russian boy with his arms full of
newspapers.  But Ivan held his head high with pride, for after all, he did
have a clutch of Tass.




A pair of hungry poets went into the speedy home furnace installation
business, and advertised, "Two Bards That Heat in 3/4 Time."


Audobon was also interested in the genetic traits of birds, and one of his
experiments was raising a colony of ravens, causing a friend he met on the
street one day to inquire if he had bred any good rooks lately.



During a rare outside-of-the-Iron-Curtain tour a midget acrobat of the Prague
Circus decided to defect.  He presented himself to the American Embassy in
France and asked: "Pardon, but can you cache a small Czech?"


-rsr-
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