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From: harryf@ear.BERKELEY.EDU (Harry Freeman)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.jokes
Subject: Re: Why net.puns aren't very funny
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Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 18:35:47 EST
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In article <198@lll-lcc.UUcp> bandy@lll-lcc.UUcp (Andrew Scott Beals) writes:
>Puns in an enviroment like this just aren't funny. Do you know why? Because
>people have pun dictionaries ("Crosbie's Dictionary of Puns") and any fool
>can leaf thru a reference work and come up with a 1 (or N) liner to add to
>the silly >>> tree in net.jokes.
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>If when you're talking along in class and you make a bad pun, that's a
>completely different matter - you just don't have time to thumb thru
>a reference and "come up" with them.
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>Now for the obligatory joke:
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>A fisherman from Maine went to Alabama on his vacation.  He rented a boat,
>rowed out to the middle of the lake, and cast his line, but when he looked
>down into the water he was horrified to see a man wrapped in chains lying
>on the bottom of the lake.  He quickly rowed to shore and ran to the police
>station.  "Sheriff, sheriff," he gasped, there's a guy wrapped in chains,
>drowned in the lake!"
>	"Now ain't that jest like a Yankee," drawled the sheriff, "to steal
>more chain than he can swim with?"
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>The next one is quite old and "Offensive to Dave Bloom (rot13)"
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>D. Jung'f gur qvssrerapr orgjrra n wrj naq n cvmmn?
>N. N cvmmn qbrfa'g fpernz jura lbh chg vg va gur bira.
>-- 
>I'm PROUD to be a CARBON-BASED lifeform!
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>andy beals
>bandy@lll-crg.arpa	{ihnp4,seismo,ll-xn,qantel,sun}!lll-crg!bandy
>LLNL, P.O. Box 808, L-419, Livermore CA 94550 (415) 423-1948