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Article #1404Why net.puns aren't very funny
From: Andrew Scott Beals
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1986 21:51
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1986 21:51
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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)"
D. Jung'f gur qvssrerapr orgjrra n wrj naq n cvmmn?
N. N cvmmn qbrfa'g fpernz jura lbh chg vg va gur bira.
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