Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdcsu!smann
From: smann@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Shannon Mann - I.S.er)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Understanding Jokes
Summary: Yeah, but I remember...
Keywords: Humour,Humor,Sci-Fi
Message-ID: <5263@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 88 06:12:35 GMT
References: <3244@sdsu.UUCP> <2070022@otter.hple.hp.com> <846@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: smann@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Shannon Mann - I.S.er)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <846@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> anderson@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Joel Peter Anderson) writes:
>This discussion brings to mind a story by Isaac Asimov (I forgot the name,
>remember) in which his mythical world computer "Multivac" is put to the
>task of determining from where jokes come. 

The name of the story is 'Jokester'.  Asimov wrote it because he loves telling
jokes, and he wanted a sci-fi story to have his six favourite jokes in it.
(Actually, Larry Shaw dared him to do it.  Who's Larry Shaw?  I don't know, 
but it is probably someone who knows Isaac :-)

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'I have no brain, and I must think...' - An Omynous
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