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Article #1403Re: Why net.puns aren't very funny AND Re: Math joke (pun chain)
From: boreas
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1986 04:10
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1986 04:10
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In article #4669 (on our system), Andrew Beals writes:
>Xref: harvard net.jokes.d:1148 net.jokes:12096
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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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Well, I don't know about y'all, but *I* don't have one, and even if you
people do, they're still fun to read and to add to. There's such a thing
as the 'n' key if you don't like them; most are labeled as puns.
>
>I'm PROUD to be a CARBON-BASED lifeform!
>
Name a life-form that isn't!
Now for the obligatory addition to the pun chain. . . .
>In article <483@codas.ATT.UUCP> mikel@codas.UUCP writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>What was the first math lesson?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>God told Adam to multiply...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>If you keep telling old math jokes, I'll have to dis-integrate you.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>How did you derive that line?
>>>>>>>>>>>>Oh, it makes no differential...
>>>>>>>>>>>This is at best a partial excuse for humor.
>>>>>>>>>>When will these math jokes stop? Please give me a sine!
>>>>>>>>>Notice how these jokes tend to send people off on tangents?
>>>>>>>>These lousy jokes keep adding up...and I fear this may be the worst case!
>>>>>>>This seems to be forming an infinte series.
>>>>>>Well, as long as it doesn't become complex, we won't keep going in circles.
>>>>>There ought to be a sin in that!
>>>>This discussion is Polar-izing the net! It is going to divide us!
>>>I can't see anything positive coming out of this.
>>It's all imaginary anyway.
>Actually, I think it at last has become complex.
At least we're all being discrete about it. . . .
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