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3 total messages Started by Anton Winteroak Thu, 20 Feb 1986 19:05
re erudite pun
#1347
Author: Anton Winteroak
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1986 19:05
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	It is worth noting that all of the punch lines given so far
to this joke have come (unchanged) from an article that appeared in
the New Yorker Magazine about half a year ago.
	This short article was in search of the proper collective
noun for prostitutes. About twenty suggestions were listed. Since
all of the people adding suggestions to this list have used examples
given in this article, perhaps one of them would save us the agony
of seeing them all one at a time, and post the whole collection
giving credit where credit is due.
	It was a rather funny article, and one that wouldn't suffer
very much being in our medium.


	Allow me now to get up on my soap box again and make a plea
for more original material on the net. Jokes come from some place, why
not brilliant people like you? It is not outside your capabilities.
	If for some reason you feel like posting something you have
heard or read elsewhere, please give credit to your source.
	It is frustrating some times because there will always be
people on the net who will want to tell us again what NASA stands for.
Or will want to go on and on about "No no no, the way I heard it was..."
These things fill up the net with so much garbage that a lot of people
don't have time to hit the "n" key that many times a day. So they
just quit reading net.jokes.
	To sum up, please, please, If everyone who reads this net
came up with one joke per month that was original, even if only one
in ten was any good, we would be a lot better off. Plus the people
who applied themselves to write the original material would excersize
the creative skills a little.
Re: re erudite punSubject: Re: re erudite pun
#1345
Author: Tainter
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1986 22:41
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> 	Nyybj zr abj gb trg hc ba zl fbnc obk ntnva naq znxr n cyrn
> sbe zber bevtvany zngrevny ba gur arg. Wbxrf pbzr sebz fbzr cynpr, jul
> abg oevyyvnag crbcyr yvxr lbh?

V crefbanyyl fhofpevor gb gur oryvrs gung nyy wbxrf jrer perngrq ng bar gvzr
naq unir orra ercrngrq rire fvapr.

Guvf vf Gur Ovt Juuvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvmm Onat Gurbel.
Sbe lbh Perngvbavfgf gurl jbhyq unir pbzr whfg nsgre tbq perngrq gur
qhpx ovyyrq cyngnchf, fvapr ur jnf nyernql va gur cebcre senzr bs zvaq.

--wbuanguna n. gnvagre 
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Re: re erudite pun
#1363
Author: Kent S. Harris
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1986 22:18
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In article <18@npois.UUCP>, jay@npois.UUCP (Anton Winteroak) writes:
> 
> 	It is worth noting that all of the punch lines given so far
> to this joke have come (unchanged) from an article that appeared in
> the New Yorker Magazine about half a year ago......
> 
> 	Allow me now to get up on my soap box again and make a plea
> for more original material on the net.....

The original joke was popular at Harvard in the 30's.  The magazine,
therefore plagerized from still earlier sources.  Frankly, we would
all appreciate mitigation of your whining in exchange for more jokes,
original or not.
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