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From: krantz@csd2.UUCP (Michaelntz)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: light bulb humor
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Date: Wed, 1-Jan-86 21:28:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  1 21:28:00 1986
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Hello out there.  About a week or two ago I wrote, and was
responded to by Andrew Seigel, as follows:

>>Hello out there.  Is it just me, or are light bulb jokes
>>clearly the greatest `riddle variation' in existence?

> Must just be you. These already went over the net and everyone got sick
> of them. If there's nothing in the 'welcome to the net' stuff that you
> should have read pefore posting that says 'no more light bulb jokes'
> (or YALBJ, as they were known) then there should be. (confused? good)

Okay. I'm new here, and get the message, from you and from those who
wrote to me personally to let me know the status of LBJ's on the net.
While I do apologize on behalf of my ignorance, it seems to me that
there will always be rookies and veterans on the net, and that it
doesn't take long to hit RETURN and skip to the next posting.

>> Q:  How many New Yorkers does it take to change a light bulb?
>> A:  None of your goddamned business.

> Any New Yorker would tell you (in a rude manner, no doubt) that it was
> none of your fu**ing business.

Wrong.  I live in Manhattan.  We recognize the difficulties involved
in living w/other people, etc., and accomodate them, though we don't
tolerate bullshit, either.  There's a lesson there for you, Andrew,
wherever you live.

>> LONG LIVE THE BOSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

> huh???

If you dont know who The Boss is then you cannot be saved.  Sorry.

>> Additions to above list are eagerly awaited.  

> No they are not!!

The essence of good sarcastic writing, Andrew, lies in neither 
belaboring nor overstating your point.  You may consider this
posting your personal tutorial.

>> Yours Wittily,

> No comment. :-)

Anyone reading the next `joke', posted by you, would probably agree,
Andrew, that people who net.write in paper houses shouldn't send
flames.  :-)  The "Programmers do it from the top-down" line is as
old as the first light bulb joke, and far less amusing. 

Ah, one's first flame.  Makes you feel warm all under...

Yours In Righteously Apologetic Vindication,

Michael Krantz
 
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