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From: bandy@lll-lcc.UUcp (Andrew Scott Beals)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.jokes
Subject: Why net.puns aren't very funny
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Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 16:51:33 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 20 16:51:33 1986
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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.

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:


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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