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From: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: A Different Kind of Joke - Help Requested
Message-ID: <556@cylixd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 12:57:13 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  9 12:57:13 1985
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Summary: HERE'S A REAL STINKER

In article <811@h-sc1.UUCP> shiue@h-sc1.UUCP (steve shiue) writes:
>
>	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...


Here's one I always get run out of the room for telling:

A man receives a letter and opens it to read it; but the letter is in
some strange language, and he cannot decipher it.

He shows the letter to his wife. After reading it, she refuses to speak
to him. She won't even tell him what it said. Later she files for
divorce.

He shows it to his neighbor, who immediately throws down the note and
storms into his house without a word. Later that afternoon the neighbor
builds a 10-foot fence between them.

[Endless loop about going around to different people (barber, postman,
grocery store clerk, etc.) and everyone turning against him after
reading it, and taking some appropriate action.]

Finally, he begins to look up words in several foreign language
dictionaries, and eventually finds that some of the words appear to be
French. So he takes the note to his old college, to the head of the
French department. He tells the professor about everyone turning away
from him whenever they read the note, and demands that the professor
promise him that he will tell him what it says without turning away.
The professor promises, and the man hands him the note.

The professor opens the note... and... (chuckle)... heh-heh-heh...
HE CAN'T READ IT! HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAA-HA-HA-HA!

(Actually, jokes like this probably don't belong in net.jokes, but
since there is no longer a net.bizarre we will just have to put up
with them here.)

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