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From: shiue@h-sc1.UUCP (steve shiue)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: A Different Kind of Joke - Help Requested
Message-ID: <811@h-sc1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 20:53:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  5 20:53:42 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Dec-85 03:47:25 EST
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	I was wondering if anyone out there in net.land could provide
me with examples of those long excruciating kinds of jokes with
no real punchline- well, perhaps I would do best by providing an
example:

Summary:  A kid is born, and from the time when he is very small, every
time his birthday comes up, parents, friends etc. always ask him what
he wants for his birthday, and he always says that he wants some "green
golf balls."  But people always give him something else.  The joke is
carried through the guy's adolescence, adulthood, marriage, etc.  At
the end of the story, he's on his deathbed, and his
children/grandchildren are asking him what the big fixation on green
golf balls was (of course he never got them during the course of the
story).  He starts to tell them, "Well, you see... uuunnhh."  And
dies.

Ideal conditions for telling this kind of joke:  You are 12-14 years
old and at summer camp.  It is 2 in the morning and everyone is talking
instead of sleeping.  You tell the story skillfully enough to hold
everyone's attention, but excruciatingly slowly, and with great detail,
so that total telling time is 15-30min.  At the story's conclusion,
everyone in the cabin beats you senseless with their pillows.

			-Steve Shiue