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From: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Why net.puns aren't very funny
Message-ID: <202@midas.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 12:42:56 EST
Article-I.D.: midas.202
Posted: Fri Mar 21 12:42:56 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Mar-86 04:48:17 EST
References: <198@lll-lcc.UUcp>
Reply-To: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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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.
>
>---
>
>Now for the obligatory joke:

You already told it. I can't believe that anyone has to look in any book
to think of the quality of puns I've seen here. People are in sad shape if
they do. (I don't care, I like 'em anyway.)

Better go back to making cookies... :-)

				Jeff Winslow