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From: elliott@aero.ARPA (Ken Elliott )
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: A Different Kind of Joke - Help Requested
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Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 15:39:23 EST
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[Slurrrrrrrrp]

Ok, there's this one mad scientist-type who's experimenting with this
Dr. J & Mr. H type formula.  One day in the lab, while our mad scientist
is eating his Rice Crispies (TM), he accidentally pours his formula
instead of milk into the bowl (well, I said he's mad).  Anyway, all of a
sudden, the Rice Crispies grow to about 10 ft. tall, and start eating
everything in sight (they also grew big teeth :-) )

   <enter meta-joke mode>

At this point, you describe in excruciating detail about everything they
eat, i.e. "They ate the building, then went out into the parking lot and
ate all the cars, then they went to City Hall and ate that, ....."
You detail, state by state, country by country, just what they ate, until
they've eaten everything on earth.  At this point, if nobody has interrupted
you yet, have them take a space shuttle that they haven't eaten to the
various planets of the solar system, etc.  Note that if you are a whiz at
astronomy, you'll be able to do this 'till the cows come home.  Long about
now, someone who hasn't fallen asleep will ask "JHC, does this thing ever
end?!"  To which you reply

  <Leave meta-joke mode>

Of course not, silly.  It's a cereal.   <beating follows>

***Warning:  I once told this one after having lectured my victim on the
             virtues of not interrupting jokes (this was due to the way
             they destroyed the previous joke I told). I was well into my
             second alternate universe before they finally got the courage
             to interrupt.

 ----Ken Elliott
---elliott@aerospace.ARPA