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From: glenn@anasazi.UUCP (Glenn Ehrlich)
Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.math
Subject: Re: number jokes
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Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 15:19:52 EST
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In article <522@mmm.UUCP> cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard) writes:
>In article <11487@watnot.UUCP> rjmoulton@watnot.UUCP (Robert Moulton) writes:
>>I think people in jail would like number 6  [think about it]
>
>I've thought about it, but can't decipher it.  Anybody care to clue me in?


That one is easy.  6 was the "number" of the Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan's
pseudo-sequel to his series Secret Agent.  The show was called "The Prisoner",
and was about the imprisonment of a secret agent after he resigned.  No. 6, as
he was called, ultimately escaped, which to a person in a jail, must certainly
be a good omen.

Glenn Ehrlich