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From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: YAJJ (Yet Another Jail Joke)
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 15:37:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 10 15:37:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!mcewan    Feb 10 14:37:00 1986


> Ignore this if someone has suggested it before, but since the
> same jokes keep appearing over and over and over and over in
> net.jokes, maybe we should just number them to save on transmission
> costs.  I can just see it now, Paddy O'Furniture is #1, 
> Klingons/Uranus is #2, and the jail joke is number 3.  We should
> start now and reserve contiguous blocks of numbers for certain
> classes of jokes-- light bulbs from 1000 to 2000, bumber snickers
> from 2001 to 3000, and nerdy op codes from 10000 to 20000 hex.

And we can use decimals for slight variations on punchlines. Then people
can post 146 responses of the form "No, no - 123.002334 is the right
punchline!".

			Scott McEwan
			{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan

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