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From: HAUGLAND@NUACVM.ACNS.NWU.EDU (Laurie Haugland)
Subject: Re: some Soviet emigre restaurant jokes
Organization: Northwestern University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:24:06 GMT

In article <krz.725004586@scorpion.ac.cowan.edu.au>
krz@cowan.edu.au (K.WOZNIAK) writes:
 
>
>roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Roelle) writes:
>
>[ text in Russian deleted]
>
>>Bu Lhel, qba'g or fhpu n cevpxyrff nffubyr.  Whfg jevgr lbhe tbqqnza fuvg
>>va Ratyvfu, bx?
>
>>Bcvavbaf ner abg gubfr bs rzcyblre, pyvragf, be pyvrag'f phfgbzref.
>
>>Curt
>
>Monolingualism is curable.
>
Qu'est-ce qu'il veut dire? :-).
 
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From: widget@cs.montana.edu (Jody Smith)
Subject: Re: interesting christian-surname combinations
Keywords: Funky Christian Names
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:55:06 GMT

I went to high school with a guy named David Sweet and a girl named 
Judy Sour. They started dating somewhere towards the end of high school
and finally got married.

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From: jlien@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: Re: Request: Poem about a Tree.
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:02:03 GMT

   A request for a poem about trees? Hmmm.. Okay, here goes..

         Trees for breakfast
         -------------------
         This morning, my dad,
         Not being very smart,
         In his own right,
         Went hunting in the woods,
         He walked,
         And walked,
         And walked,
         And walked,
         And walked,
         Until he found a big rock,
         Then he knew he was lost,
         He knew he was in trouble,
         He knew he was going to die,
         "Hey, we all go, anyway.."
         He philosophized,
         He screamed at the injustice of life,
         Then he took out his knife,
         And stabbed a rock,
         It wheezed,
         It wasn't a rock,
         It was a blob of gook,
         "Ahhh." My father said,
         "A blob of gook!",
         He stood up,
         Walked over to a tree,
         And took a bite.

             ...Ahhh.. A veritable masterpiece. *8)

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From: hathaway@stsci.edu
Subject: Re: Request: "Feminist" type jokes
Followup-To: rec.humor
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:36:38 GMT

In article <20608@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, pthirose@fajita.engr.ucdavis.edu (Paul Hirose) writes:
> I was recently cleaning out some of my -really- old mail/news folders,
> and came across this joke which I subsequently showed a female friend
> of mine.  She thought it was great, and was wondering if there was more
> like it.  
..
> 
> Anyway, if anyone has any jokes like this, or knows where I can get some
..
> Thanks again.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Paul Hirose		     pthirose@rosarita.engr.ucdavis.edu
> Computer Science Student     I speak for me, not the university (disclaimer)

Well, these two may be real old and are not exactly 'feminist' jokes, 
but I've found that men don't much laugh at them, but some women think 
they're a scream. 



A little boy and a little girl were playing together when the little 
boy pulls his pants down, points to his thing and sneeringly states: 
"Ha, Ha, I've got one of these and YOU don't!" 
The little girl runs away upset, but comes back a few minutes later, 
pulls down her pants and points and says, "Well, my mommy says that 
with one of THESE, I can get as many of THOSE as I want!" 



Riddle:  "What's the best thing to come out of a penis?" 



- Long pause - 



Answer:  "The wrinkles" 

Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: mgupta@eng.clemson.edu (Manu_Gupta)
Subject: Re: another Jesus joke
Reply-To: mgupta@eng.clemson.edu
Organization: College of Engineering, Clemson Univ.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:08:39 GMT

Well, not exactly Jesus, lets say St. Francis (fictitious)

Jesus gathered his disciples around him one day and said he wanted them to do something
for him.  He asked them each to pick up a stone (St. Francis picked up a really large
one).  Jesus said "Throw the stone as far as you can, and the distance it covers, all
of that land is yours."

Naturally St. Francis hardly got any land.  Pissed off and determined to make the best
of the next task, when asked to pick up a stone, he picked a small one. Jesus said "Let
the stone in your hand turn to food."

Cheated of his rightful (so he thought) share, St. Francis determined to best all this 
time.  Now Jesus said "pick up two stones."  St. Francis being the smart guy he was (?)
picked up a small stone and a large one.

Jesus said "Let these stones become your b..ls."  Now, do yu know why St. Francis 
limps ?

Manu.

Disclaimer :  St. Francis is a fictitious name, if such a person does exist please 
accept my apologies, I don't mean to hurt anyone's sentiments.
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: REQUEST: Differences between VMS & PMS
From: mulvenad@fri.cri.nz
Date: 24 Dec 92 09:35:11 +1300
Organization: New Zealand Forest Research Institute

I missed copying a recent posting about the differences between
VMS and PMS.  Did anyone save a copy?

Could you send it to me by email (rather than reposting to the net) please?

Thanks in advance

Damian
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Forest Research Institute          Internet: mulvenad@fri.cri.nz
Rotorua, NEW ZEALAND               Bitnet: mulvenad%fri.cri.nz@uunet.uu.net
From: bvh@cse.unl.edu (Ben Hollingsworth)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: REQUEST: Differences between VMS & PMS
Date: 28 Dec 1992 08:18:46 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
Distribution: world
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mulvenad@fri.cri.nz writes:

! I missed copying a recent posting about the differences between
! VMS and PMS.  Did anyone save a copy?

! Could you send it to me by email (rather than reposting to the net) please?

Ditto.

				-- Obi-Wan (bvh@cse.unl.edu)

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From: dws@ssec.wisc.edu (DaviD W. Sanderson)
Subject: Re: WANTED: Smilies
Followup-To: rec.humor.d
Organization: UW-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:15:30 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.105259@ece.arizona.edu> sununu@ece.arizona.edu (Arun Vaidyanath) writes:
>Can someone post me the set of smilies

My smiley program (containing the largest and most comprehensive
collection of smileys ever posted) was most recently posted in
comp.sources.misc, volume 23.  See your nearby comp.sources.misc
archive site to obtain it.

The comp.sources.misc index line:

v23i102   smiley/part01      smiley - smiley server, version 4, Part01/01

Here are a few anonymous FTP sites and paths:

wuarchive.wustl.edu:
	usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume23/smiley/part01.Z
uunet.uu.net:
	comp.sources.misc/volume23/smiley/part01.Z

Ask your system administrator if you don't know what anonymous FTP is.

DaviD W. Sanderson (dws@ssec.wisc.edu)

	"The Noah Webster of smileys is David Sanderson"
		- The Wall Street Journal, 15 Sep 1992
From: rogers@calamari.hi.com (Andrew Rogers)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: New Answers to an Old Question
Date: 30 Dec 1992 13:57:10 -0000
Organization: Hitachi Computer Products, OSSD division
NNTP-Posting-Host: calamari.hi.com

In article <qhm24l#@rpi.edu> petitc@vccnw01.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit) writes:
>		Answers to "Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?"
>				(1992 version)

Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip?

To stay on the same side!
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: fester@island.COM (Mike Fester)
Subject: Re: Credit Validation
Organization: /usr/local/rn/organization
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:40:55 GMT

In article <NAEEM.92Dec30195605@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> naeem@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Naeem Mohaiemen) writes:

>But there is a difference between the scenario where an American tourist
>goes abroad and "sounds stupid" to people in India and an Indian immigrant
>living in the Bronx who gets called names such as "Ali Baba" as he goes
>to work every day.

You're right. The latter is ENORMOUSLY funny!

Mike
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conveniently defined conspiracy, or b) my wife.
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: akp@cns.nyu.edu (Prashanth Kumar A.K.,Rm 1010)
Subject: Re: More Far Side
Reply-To: akp@cns.nyu.edu
Organization: New York University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 11:57:50 GMT

In article 9321@odin.diku.dk, ballerup@diku.dk (Per Goetterup) writes:
> [...]
> 
> My current favourite is very seasonal, and without words. It's the one with
> Santa, sleigh and raindeers splashed all over the front of a jet plane...
> 
> No words nessesary...
> 
> 	Per.
> --
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
> | Per Goetterup, Student, DIKU                 InterNet: ballerup@ask.diku.dk |
> | 


Per Goetterup,student,from diku.dk,
has made a picku.pick,
of his favourite far side,
which made me smile wide.




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From: Robyn_Clark@mindlink.bc.ca (Robyn Clark)
Subject: BRITISH UNDERSTATEMENT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 20:47:13 GMT

With all due respect to Her Majesty The Queen...


        "1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted
pleasure." - Queen Elizabeth II






Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: chrisb@seachg.uucp (Chris Blask)
Subject: Re: Opus ascii
Reply-To: chrisb@seachg.UUCP (Chris Blask)
Organization: Sea Change Corporation, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 15:42:04 GMT

>I somehow must have missed the original posting of the ASCII opus.
>Could the ORIGINAL POSTER please email me a copy?
>
>				Thanks,
>				Obi-Wan

Me too!!!

-chris blask
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: sweet@gandalf.ca (Michael Sweet)
Subject: Re: interesting christian-surname combinations
Organization: Gandalf Data Ltd.
Distribution: rec.humor
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:05:04 GMT


Somewhere in the USA is a woman, originally from Iowa, who is (or was)
named Fonda Dicks.

I saw her name in the Des Moines Register in a listing of Weekly Top
Scorers in girls basketball (high school).  My immediate thought was "where wereher parents' heads when they named her!"

I later saw her name at the University of Northern Iowa.  This was in the 
early '70s.

No idea what became of the woman or if she ever changed her name.


btw... my aunt and uncle's wedding was like a salad dressing - Sweet and
Savory (Dorothy Sweet and Sam Savory).  And yes, that makes him my Uncle Sam.

-- 
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Support Programs Coordinator     			phone (613)723-6500
Gandalf Data Ltd.					fax   (613)226-1717
From: cwa@oasis.icl.co.uk (Chris Adams)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Golf joke
Date: 23 Dec 92 13:47:39 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

Well there's always the SKODA (Aaagh!)

Or the RELIANT ROBIN

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From: hampton@ais.org (Kevin Podsiadlik)
Subject: Re: A statue for Bush
Organization: UMCC
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 00:46:42 GMT

In article <8277@lib.tmc.edu> drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez) writes:
>In article <1992Dec31.125817.2078@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
>jgrape@coos.dartmouth.edu (Johan A. Grape) writes:
>>This was originally about Reagan, someone copied in Clinton etc.
>>
>>Now we have it for Bush.
>
>When this came around a couple of months ago, I believe someone said they'd
>seen it 20 or 30 years ago, about some other president.

I seriously doubt the "P.S." portion of the letter is 20-30 years old.
It would seem to me that jokes about condoms were a little unfashionable
back then.

And really, "stands for inflation"?  The Bush presidency may have had its
share of problems, but inflation was definitely NOT one of them.

>
>>So - who's numb?
>>
>>-Pinot Noir
>
>You tell me.
>
>David Gutierrez

Way too many of us, I can assure you.

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From: Robyn_Clark@mindlink.bc.ca (Robyn Clark)
Subject: Re: >> Other ways to say vomit..
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:51:45 GMT

Then there is... Talking to Bluelah on the porcelain telephone!

Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: e_p@unlinfo.unl.edu (edgar pearlstein)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: interesting christian-surname combinations
Date: 2 Jan 1993 21:26:38 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
NNTP-Posting-Host: unlinfo.unl.edu
Keywords: Funky Christian Names

   Then there's Larue Walker.

Xref: sparky rec.humor:37024 soc.culture.soviet:11472
From: wagner@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: rec.humor,soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Re: some Soviet emigre restaurant jokes
Date: 23 Dec 92 14:48:05 EST
Cvm.acns.nwu.references:  <wls2v!p@rpi.edu>
Followup-To: vm.acns.nwu.references:  <wls2v!p@rpi.edu>

Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Physics

In article <wls2v!p@rpi.edu>, petitc@vccnw06.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit) writes:
> HAUGLAND@NUACVM.ACNS.NWU.EDU (Laurie Haugland) writes:
> 
>>>Monolingualism is curable.
>>>
>>Qu'est-ce qu'il veut dire? :-).
> 
>  A mon avis, il veut dire qu'il parle beaucoup des langes, et veut tout le
> monde savoir comment il est si intelligent. :&)

Mais votre reponse en francais, c'est la meme chose, n'est-ce pas?

A ani jste to neudelali spravne.  Myslim, ze jste meli odpovedet 
v nejakem tretim jazice.
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From: Ravi Kiran <ballams@pine.circa.ufl.edu>
Subject: A statue for Bush
Organization: India
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.0
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 18:17:36 GMT

I have come across this letter and feel that there 
are many of you out there who will enjoy this. I did not 
write this article and the credit belongs to somebody
else ( whom I dont know.)


Dear friend,

We have the distinguished honor of being a committee to raise
five million dollars for placement of a statue of George Bush in
the Hall of Fame in Washington DC.

This committee was in a quandary where to place the statue. It 
was not deemed wise to place it beside the statue of George
Washington, who never told a lie, not beside Richard Nixon who
never told a truth, since George Bush couldn't tell the difference.

We finally decided to place it beside Christopher Colombus, the
greatest of them all.  He left not knowing where he was going,
and upon arrival didn't know where he was.  He returned not 
knowing where he had been and he did it all on borrowed money.

Over 5000 years ago, Moses sain to the Children of Israel, "Pick
up your shovels, mount your asses and camels, and I will lead you
to the promised land. Nearly 5000 years later, Roosevelt said : 
" Lay down your shovels, sit on your asses, light up a Camel, this 
is the promised land."

Now Bush is stealing your shovels, kicking your asses, raising the 
price of your camels, and mortgaging  the Promised Land.  If
you are one of the fortunate people who has money left after
paying taxes, we will expect a generous donation as a contribution
to this worthwhile project.

Respectfully yours,

I.M. Dunn
Secretary
Bush statue Committee

PS:  It is said that President Bush is considering change of the 
Republican party emblem from an elephant to a condom, because
the latter stands for inflation, protects a bunch of pricks, halts
production and gives a false sense of security when one is 
being screwed.
From: seifert@yesac.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Rick.Seifert)
Subject: Re: DOES ANYONE REMEMBER?
Organization: NCR Corp., Columbia SC
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 14:35:33 GMT

In article <25148.1065.uupcb@satalink.com> vince.maiocco@satalink.com (Vince Maiocco)  writes:
>In the 60's, when I was in High School, there was a rash of 
>a kind of joke I had never hear before or since, and I'm 
>wondering if it was unique to us, or the region, or whatever.  
>The jikes literally made no sense at all and I guess that's 
>where the humor came from.  Does anyone remember anything 
>like these:
>
>Q:  Why is an orange?
>A:  Because motorcycles dont have windshields.
>
>or:
>
>Q:  What's the difference between an orange?
>A:  The refrigerator has to be turned off.
>
>TIA for any valid responses.
>

Two thoughts on this:

1) My father told us "joke" all our lives which made no sense to us.  He did
this over and over until we always answered with the correct response. 

Q) Why do pigs whistle?
A) Because Ice Cream has no bones

2) Sometime during the early or mid seventies we had a set of jokes we called
refrigerator jokes.  It was more of a set up than a real joke.  Several of
us would get together ahead of time and plan to laugh real hard at an 
the prescribed "punchline" to see if we could make someone else laugh.  Then we
would embarrass the new guy by asking him why he was laughing.

The refrigerator joke I remember went something like this:

There were three elephants in a bathtub, a mama elephant, a daddy elephant, and
a baby elephant.  The mama elephant turned to the daddy elephant and asked,
"Do you have the bar of soap", the daddy elephant turned to the baby elephant
and asked, ""Do you have the bar of soap?", and the baby elephant replied,
"What do you think I am, a refrigerator?" <----Punchline

>
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>                                                                                                              

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Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d
From: bobk@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Bob)
Subject: Re: Summary of Light Bulb jokes _NOT_ available?
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 21:02:37 GMT

flink@mits.mdata.fi (Flinkman) writes:
|	I asked week or so ago here where to find light bulb jokes summary
|	file. Result was dozens of 'tell to me too'-messages, but nobody
|	didn't know where to find it. 

  Humor requests usually get better responses in rec.humor.d (as long as
  they aren't cross-posted to r.h as well).
  ==

  Bob                                           Seattle, Washington

Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.arts.movies
From: kdelgado@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Kevin Delgado)
Subject: Re: New Pepto-Bismol Ad
Organization: Florida State University Computing Center
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 21:59:12 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.212741.5887@nntpserver.chevron.com> hjjcl@usho77.hou281.chevron.com (J.J.Clyde) writes:
>>>>So there's this new ad on North-American tv for Pepto-Bismol fast-acting
>>>>formula.  The scene involves a man who is having (ahem) abdominal distress
>>>>during a movie.  He has to leave the movie (and disturb all the people in
>>>>his row) because of it.  Fortunately Pepto-Bismol comes to the rescue.
>>>>The last cut shows the happy couple leaving the movie theatre, and there
>>>>is NOTHING on the movie marquee overhead!!!
>>>>Here's the rec.humor challenge:  what movie did they see?  What would you
>>>>have liked to see on the marquee?  
>>>>How about:  "Logan's Run"?  Any other movie suggestions?
>>
>>>"Silent and Deadly".
>>>"The Black Hole"
>>
>>"Silent Running" 
>>"Run Silent, Run Deep"
>>"See You Next Wednesday"
>>"Bringing Up Baby"
>>"48 Hours"
>
>The Blob
>A River Runs Through It
>Squeeze Play
>City Slickers
>Leathel Weapon
>Deliverance
>
>--J.J.


Hmmm...OK...I'll give it a shot (against my better judgement).

Meatballs
Inferno
The Big Easy (my personal fav)
Down and Out In Beverly Hills
Apocalypse Now
The Right Stuff
Splash
The Excorcist



Kevin
From: naeem@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Naeem Mohaiemen)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Credit Validation
Date: 31 Dec 92 00:32:44 GMT
	<NAEEM.92Dec29104546@occs.cs.oberlin.edu>
	<1992Dec29.172336.21079@burrhus.harvard.edu>
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
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In article <1992Dec29.172336.21079@burrhus.harvard.edu> glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier) writes:


   In article <NAEEM.92Dec29104546@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> naeem@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Naeem Mohaiemen) writes:
   >-----
   >Although true stories, passing around anecdotes like this "for a laugh"
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   Although they may be true stories, 


   >further enhance stereotyping of "foreigner"s as speaking "funny english".
	   ^^^^^^^^^                                                English."
								    ^^^    ^^ 
   that's "enhances" not "enhance"                                      
   "Enhance" is grammatically incorrect anyway, I think you mean "reinforces." 
-----

Andrew,
	I raised a concern of mine, you responded by pointing out mistakes in
my English. Yes, my English was faulty, but how does that invalidate my
objection? 
	To repeat, these stories may very well be true. My objection
is to passing these stories around as amusing tales, creating an environment
which makes it easier for more extreme stereotypes to flourish. It is a short
step from this brand of humor to the Arab-bashing "towelhead", "camel jockey"
jokes that were used to such effect during the gulf war. When a people are
dehumanized and separated as "other" by jokes, it is easier for racist attacks
to be carried out with impunity.

Naeem Mohaiemen
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