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From: margolin@darkwing.uoregon.edu (Brian Margolin)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,misc.test
Subject: Re: Lenght of a penis is?
Date: 31 Dec 1992 07:14:56 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon Network Services
NNTP-Posting-Host: darkwing.uoregon.edu

Ha, Ha, Ha.  Not Very funny.
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From: wlu00@aix3090b.uky.edu (Wenfeng Lu)
Subject: Re: ACCOUNTING JOKES
    <1992Dec25.020841.362@netcom.com>
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
X-Path: wlu00
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 11:11:35 GMT

mzimmers@netcom.com (Michael Zimmers) writes:
 
>Two guys go up in the air in a balloon.  They hit some really dense fog
>for awhile and when it finally clears, they're in some strange land with
>no clue where thay are.  They see someone on the ground, and yell to him:

>"Hey -- where are we?"

>To which the man on the ground replied:

>"You're up in the sky!"

>One balloonist turns to the other and says, "He must be an accountant.
                                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
>His answer was absolutely correct -- and no help whatsoever."
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

   I have read a quite similar joke about "absolutely correct, but no help".
But that is not a accountant, but a mathmatician.

Have fun.

---Luu---
From: susv2040@altair.selu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: DOES ANYONE REMEMBER?
Date: 22 Dec 92 09:16:47 -0600
Distribution: world
Organization: Southeastern Louisiana University

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.
> 
> 
> --- WinQwk 2.0 a#0

>                                                                                                               
How about:  What color is a white horse? True or False.

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From: mcjunkin@spk.hp.com (Bart L. McJunkin)
Subject: Re: Undocumented Assembly
Organization: Hewlett-Packard
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]
Distribution: rec
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:14:18 GMT

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From: gvg@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Greg Goebel)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 15:10:18 GMT
Subject: Re: some Soviet emigre restaurant jokes
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
Newsgroups: rec.humor

In rec.humor, bradj@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Brad R. Johnson) writes:

>  Gosh darnit!  My ROT13 doesn't work.  Can anybody tell me what this says?

We're working on it ... my pal Mark Burak is of Ukrainian extraction but
used to be a Russian translator for Army intelligence.  

He's pretty rusty after 20 years but we've been having fun at it.

"Waiter, what's this cockroach doing in my soup?"

"Looks like the backstroke ... "

(Oh, THAT Henny Youngman ... )

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From: barryg@hplsla.hp.com (Barry Gunn)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:55:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Request: Poem about a Tree. (not limerick)
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
Newsgroups: rec.humor

>
> 
>     Someone asked me today if I knew any funny poems, not limericks,
>     on the topic of trees.  Any suggestions?  
> 
    
     Tell them "no".
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: andy@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (andy.russo)
Subject: So this man goes to the doctor, and ....
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Holmdel, NJ - Jello Studies Group
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 14:57:47 GMT
Keywords: doctor, tailor, pain

	In several years on rec.humor, I haven't seen this joke.
I was reminded of it this morning -- don't ask how.  Here goes.
Stop me if you've heard it before :-)

	A man goes to the doctor, and he says "Doc - I've been
feeling fine, but suddenly I'm getting these sharp pains, from here
to here."  { point to any two body parts you especially like }

	The doctor tries everything - X-rays here, poking there,
taking blood out of this, banging a hammer on that - but he looks
perplexed.  After all the tests, he takes the man into his office
with a worried look.  "Well, it's tough to diagnose, but it could be
bio-plaktanosis of the frambular region.  Anyway, with pains like
that, whatever it is, you'll be dead within a week."

	The man is clearly worried, and he seeks a second opinion
(such as "you're ugly, too").  He goes to a high-priced specialist,
and says "Doc -- you've got to help me.  I'm getting sharp pains from
here to here."

	The doctor tries everything - poking here, X-rays there,
banging a hammer on this, taking blood out of that - but the
specialist is also perplexed.  He takes the man into his private
office and in a somber voice says "I'm not surprised that bumpkin
doctor thought it was bio-plaktanosis of the frambular region, but it
must be worse, maybe cranicular franitosa.  Anyway, with pains like
this, whatever it is will kill you within a day."  ("Don't pay me with a
check, ha, ha!  Have a nice day!")

	Now the man is really depressed.  He decides that all he can
do is get a nice suit to be buried in.  He goes to the foremost
tailor in town.  "Make me the best suit you can.  Spare no expense."

	The tailor is pleased to oblige.  He measures the man, makes
the suit, fits it, puts it in a box.  "Since you're dying and all,
let me throw in some free socks."  The man thanks the tailor for his
thoughtfulness.

	In an unprecedented burst of generosity, the tailor adds
"and some shorts, size 36."

	The man says "Thanks, but I wear a 32."

	The tailor says "A 32?  Are you kidding me?  If you wore a 32,
you'd have a sharp pain from here to here."

	Ba-dum-Bump.

Andy ("Thank you.  Thank you very much.") Russo
From: n9143385@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Josh)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: esoteric joke...maybe
Summary: joke
Date: 30 Dec 92 08:07:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1992Dec30.080713.27101
Organization: Western Washington University


 ok, tell me if youve heard this one before...

	How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?

	FISH!

HOHOHO..please don't make me laugh so hard, youll make my hemmoroids bleed...


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From: pete@physchem.ox.ac.uk (Pete Biggs)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: I am stumped, please help!
Date: 31 Dec 92 10:48:37 GMT
Organization: Physical Chemistry Laboratory, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QZ
Originator: pete@joule.pcl


In article <678@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca>, tmabthor@flash.LakeheadU.Ca (Thomas M. Abthorpe) writes:
> I was posed with this question recently and I cannot find an answer, my
> online dictionary does not give the solution...
> 
> There are three words in the English language that end in 'gry'...
> 
> hungry
> angry
> *gry
> 
> Whatever might it be?

Don't know if this counts, but my WP5.1 dictionary gives

overangry 

(it's not in my Chambers though :-)

Pete

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From: Shawn.Bakken@f31.n282.z1.tdkt.kksys.com (Shawn Bakken)
Sender: FredGate@tdkt.kksys.com
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Python's Lumberjack song.... maybe!
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:20:18 -0600

  That's funny...I borrowed a Monty Python tape from a friend of mine, and it
played that tune at the end of side 2.  The only problem is, 
I distinctly heard it say "my dear papa".  Guess whatever fits is an
understatement.
   -- Always look on the bright side of life!!

Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: santa@northpole.org
Subject: Rudolf's nose is dimming
Originator: santa@northpole.org
Organization: Child Care
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 03:34:22 GMT

Attention all Christmas lovers and fans of joly 'ol Saint Nic!!!!

We have a crisis on our hands.  Rudolf's nose is slowly dimming!
We require more hope in the world to light it back up!  Do what
you can to assist.  Give money to the homeless, be nice to your
mother, give an ex-girlfriend a kiss, whatever your heart will
allow.

Please people, open up your hearts!!!
We depend on the kindness of others.

                                HO HO HO
                                SANTA
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: dheisler@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Dave Heisler)
Subject: Little known technological firsts
Organization: Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information Systems, Purdue University
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:01:34 GMT


 Little Known Famous Firsts in the History of Technology


Telephone tag - The first telephone tag occured in march
1927 when erza jones tried to order pork chops from the
town butcher. When she called when he was with a customer, and
he would always call back when she was in the basement checking on
her preserves.

Upgrade compatibility problem - Little known inventor R. S.
Cardwell experienced upgrade compatibility problems when
his electromagnetic computer failed after the local power
company switched from direct current to alternating current.
(june 1907)

CPU Thrashing - This state where the CPU makes noise but
doesn't accomplish anything was first observed by R. S.
Cardwell. (see above)

Battery backup - Inventor R. S. Cardwell first to use a
battery ( from a car ) to rectify (sic) problems with
his early computer. (july 1907)

Accidental hard disk re-format - Rob Devas accidently reformatted
his 5 meg hard drive on Feb. 9 1987.

First use of Curse words and computer in same sentence - Robert
Devas, 1987. (see above)

Fax line confusion - Tingle Mays thought the company she was
calling was having a new age concert on the hold circut, when
she called the fax line by mistake in 1988.

High density floppies - Discovered by gene sebies when he found
two 3 1/2 diskettes would fit into his 5 1/4 drive. oct. 1989

Data compression - Gene sebies performed the first attempt at
data compression when he folded his 5.25 disk to fit in his
3 1/2 inch drive. oct. 1989

First firing of a person due to computer illiteracy - Even though
a pioneer in the field Gene sebies was let go, in late oct, 1989
From: corre@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Alan D Corre)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Not his calling
Date: 4 Jan 1993 03:17:21 GMT
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4
Keywords: Bank robbery
Originator: corre@csd4.csd.uwm.edu



"An intoxicated auto repairman allegedly moonlighting as a bank robber
Tuesday crashed his car while trying to escape and was arrested...
'He should keep his day job' one Chicago police officer said. 'This is
not his calling.'"

--Chicago Tribune, December 30, 1992


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Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: dlaro@lonestar.utsa.edu (David O. Laro)
Subject: Re: Credit Validation
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:26:09 GMT

In article <18988@mindlink.bc.ca> Robyn_Clark@mindlink.bc.ca (Robyn Clark) writes:
>AMERICAN English!?!?!?... Not bloody likely mate!!!  What ever happened to
>Her Majesty's English?

I know!  I heard that, too.  But,  if my castle was burning, I might have
said the same thing.  :-)

--David
From: bruce@godzilla.swdc.stratus.com (Bruce Overby)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: LIMERICK
Date: 31 Dec 92 01:35:18 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

In article <BzFtGn.7yw@mach1.wlu.ca> veen2976@mach1.wlu.ca (veenstra christopher) writes:
>In article <1992Dec17.213557.13583@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> amorgan@csd-d-4.Stanford.EDU (Crunchy Frog) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec17.185150.20986@mlb.semi.harris.com> 
>>  jhobson@SU19F.ess.harris.com (Harv Hobson) writes:
>>>In article <BzEMJx.G8C@cs.dal.ca> 
>>>  franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin) writes:
>>>>In article <1992Dec17.001118.11284@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com> 
>>>>  record@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com writes:
>>>>>In article <BzCvz2.GDw@cs.dal.ca>, 
>>>>>  franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin) writes:
>>>>>>In <1ghiflINNel4@mercury.kingston.ac.uk> 
>>>>>>  cs_e373@ceres (Matthew Simpkin) writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>There once was a lady from Ham,
>>>>>>>Who wanted to ride on a tram,
>>>>>>>When she kissed the conductor,
>>>>>>>He turned round and fuc*ed her,
>>>>>>>And now she is pushing a pram.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>There once was a fellow named Matthew
>>>>>>Who's spelling was awful but grant you,
>>>>>>His rhyme was no better,
>>>>>>He forgot a letter,
>>>>>>It's limerick, but spell as you want to.
>>>>>
>>>>>The limerick you wrote, I have read it
>>>>>I hope never before you have said it
>>>>>For it was not funny
>>>>>It can't be worth money
>>>>>And what's more, I might add, I DON'T GET IT!!!
>>>>
>>>>I pray that you please will stop shouting.
>>>>Of verbal goo please cease your spouting.
>>>>The subject is wrong,
>>>>Been mispelled all along,
>>>>Perhaps you are smart, but I'm doubting.
>>>>
>>>A limerick cascade's in the making.
>>>To most it is not so earthshaking.
>>>But bottles of green,
>>>Are making me scream.
>>>My need rec dot humor's now slaking.
>>
>>Oh come now, how can you complain?
>>There is one thing that's certainly plain.
>>This can't go on for long
>>(Correct me if I'm wrong)
>>For to add to it you need a brain.
>>
>Well this will go on, it will,
>because it's better, still,
>than those stupid cascades
>and endless tirades,
>that always make me want to kill.
>
Things certainly must be bleak
If this newsgroup into which I now peek
Can go on so long
With these terrible songs
And end up with a limerick SO WEAK!!!

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Bruce Overby
Stratus Computer, Inc.
San Jose, CA


"Get at dem beans!"  -- Hoss Cartwright

My opinions may not reflect those of my employer.
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From: ballerup@diku.dk (Per Goetterup)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: More Far Side
Date: 21 Dec 92 09:56:02 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

[...]

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.
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Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: bstdenis@mailbox.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com (Brian St. Denis)
Subject: Re: Bumper Stickers
Organization: Fort Worth Research and Development Center, Motorola, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:44:37 GMT

In article <BzoH2G.J9s@utdallas.edu> bcollins@utdallas.edu (ARLIN B COLLINS) writes:
>atkins@mksol.dseg.ti.com (William A Atkins) writes:
>>My favorite, courtesy of George Carlin:
>>HONK if your horn is broken.
>>
>  ___________________________
>  |  I [heart] my cat.      |
>  |  I [spade] my dog.      |
>  |  I [club]  my wife.     |
>  |_________________________|
>

I know I'm days behind, but

"If you are a good driver, clap your hands."


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Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: kevinc@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (kevin.j.coulter)
Subject: Re: Car Acronyms
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:19:04 GMT

In article <yRyTVB1w165w@polecat.cacti.mcws.fidonet.org> polecat!steve@cacti.mcws.fidonet.org writes:
>sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
>
>> In article <1992Dec8.203222.44578@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> gb03@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (
>> >Ford only runs damaged
>> >Ford only runs damaged only runs damaged
>> >Ford only runs damaged only runs damaged only runbs damaged
>> Found On Road Dead
>Fix Or Replace Daily

Fastest On Race Day  is my personal favorite....



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Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: jsmits74@ursa.calvin.edu (Jeffrey Smits)
Subject: REQUEST: Smiley's
Organization: Calvin College
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 11:38:43 GMT

Can someone either post <<probably the best idea>> or EMail the most complete
smiley "directory"??

Thanks in advance...


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From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Credit Validation
Date: 31 Dec 1992 22:09:28 GMT
Organization: Univ. Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

In article <1992Dec30.232505.13333@bsu-ucs> 00bwanderson@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
writes:
>OK, I'll grant you that's a point.  Mind you I don't know of any Indians here
>at BSU who get called Ali Baba, but it's a point. 

Same here - we call 'em "Gunga Din".

David Gutierrez
drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu

"Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard

Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: mlsmith@reed.edu (Marty L. Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Bumper Stickers
Date: 22 Dec 92 10:22:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Dec22.102236.13898
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon

In article <Treble-171292135751@asc438.asc.slb.com> Treble@asc.slb.com (John Treble) writes:
>> 
>> > Here's some bumper stickers I remember that were pretty good.
>> > 
>> > My son is on the dean's shit list at xxx University
>> > Marriage is the main cause of divorce
>> > Your father should have pulled out early
>Saw on Rush Limbaugh's show:
>
>	Welfare should be as hard to get as a building permit!
Try these:
	Visualize Rioting
	I'd rather be driving
From: Alan.Holmes@brunel.ac.uk (Alan J Holmes)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: In the beginning
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:31:11 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK

In article <20192.2b3726aa@ul.ie> mckeonj@ul.ie writes:
>In article <18683@mindlink.bc.ca>, Robyn_Clark@mindlink.bc.ca (Robyn Clark) writes:
>> In the beginning there was nothing, and God said, "Let there be light" and
>> there was light.  

And you could see for miles.

Regards

Alan Holmes
From: wft@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Tell)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: California is NOT representative of the US as a whole
Date: 3 Jan 1993 22:17:39 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu
Keywords: language


I think if you had to choose one state as representative of the U.S.
as a whole you could only choose California.  It has 30 million people
from most parts of the world, is by itself a top 10 global economic
power, has lovely beaches and mountains, and the great city of
San Francisco.   And at least we don't all speak in twangy voices
and listen to Garth Brooks.

WFT

Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: carlson@cwis.unomaha.edu (Brian D. Carlson)
Subject: Offensive to Country Musicians with Bandana's on
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:13:54 GMT

	There was a woman who was quite fond of Elvis from his early
years. She liked him so much she got a tatoo of his face done on the
inside of her thigh.

	Years later, Elvis died, (wait, I just saw him) and she decided
to get a likeness of his later years on her other thigh.

	Well, she got married, and on her honeymoon night she revealed
herself to her new husband and said, 'what do you think?'

	He said, 'I don't recognize the other two, but the one in the
middle must be Willie Nelson'

Yuk, yuk, yeach!
From: woodard@figment.tmc.edu (Chris Woodard)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Undocumented Assembly
Date: 29 Dec 92 03:40:48 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: University of South Florida, Department of Computer Science and Engineering



And here are a few more that didn't make it into the original list (or my
follow-up):

	GOP	Cause reams of output complaining about how much
		power the CPU uses in handling peripheral devices
		while attempting to reserve as much CPU time as   
		possible for instructions of the same class

	DEM	Redistribute CPU cycles in an equitable manner

	RUSH    Cause reams of _DITTO_ messages to be printed on the
		printer, after repeatedly interrupting whatever program
		was running at the time.

Anyone got any others?	
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