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From: bc770@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (George Burgyan)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Subject: Re: Meaning?
Date: 22 Dec 1992 03:30:21 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bc770@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (George Burgyan)
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In a previous article, georgen@pooky.cs.mun.ca (George Noel) says:

>>509  35 votes  23ad7 225ga 6b954 67a93  5b1b 229h5 a9655 5dd22 11dd7 3d991
>>509  3.1 mean   3.6   3.9   2.7   2.9   3.1   3.6   2.6   2.5   3.7   2.8
>
>When you see this at the beginning of an Oracularities Digest (this one
>came from #514) - are those the averages of the entries in the *current*
>digest or in the number it says (those averages came from Digest #509?)
>
>-=*George*=-

It is for digest 509.

GB!
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From: krauskop@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Curtis D Krauskopf)
Subject: Re: Woodchuck question answered or not?
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 02:37:51 GMT

In article <BztGFw.3Lq@pcuf.fi> luikero@pcuf.fi (Lauri Kero) writes:
>
>  Sorry if this is a FAQ but has anyone ever answered the woodchuck
>question and if so, what was the answer?

And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

*ZOT*
From: pfritsch@skid.ps.uci.edu (Paul Fritschle)
Subject: Re: An oracle post *I* got that never made it into the Oracularities
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
Organization: Miskatonic University Department of Computer Science
Distribution: usa
Date: 23 Dec 92 23:35:13 GMT

jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr) writes:

>The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
>Your question was:

>> Tell me, o mighty Oracle, whose picnics are as the picnics of heaven and
>> whose potato salad is Never infested by ants,
>>
>> Why is corned beef called "corned beef"?

>And in response, thus spake the Oracle:

[Answer deleted for the benefit of those with a sense of humor]

>Personally, I thought that was a howl.  Totally out of the blue.  Never
>would have thought of answering the question that way.  What do you all think?

Personally, I think you should stick to lemurs.
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From: Mic.Oettinger@launchpad.unc.edu (Mic Oettinger)
Subject: Re: More Far Side
Summary: kinda stupid to summarize a one-liner
Keywords: ummmm question help please anybody you ummm
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 22:37:12 GMT

if anybody knows the words to the poem "Damn the electric fence" by a
certain unhappy Farside cow i would truely appreciate them..
thanks in advance.

Michelle


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From: f012@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: MST3K: Apology
Date: 27 Dec 92 17:29:05 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <gcX=Js@engin.umich.edu>, positron@engin.umich.edu (Jonathan Scott Ha
as) writes:
>In what may qualify as one of the most boneheaded things I have done
>this year, I proposed the creation of a newsgroup without first checking
>to see if it already existed. Sorry about that... please disregard the
>RFD for alt.fan.mst3k.
>
>__/\__  Jonathan S. Haas         | Jake liked his women the way he liked
>

Uh...you're forgiven.  What is the ID for the group, I want in....  :)  IS it
"alt.fan.mst3k" or is that what you proposed?

In any case, please provide me, someone, with the ID for this group so I can
join my fellow MSTies.

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From: cjhs@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: REQUEST: That Jesus fortune
Date: 21 Dec 92 11:11:52 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

Real Life?!?! HA!! (mchaffee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) writes:
: 
: >Could someone send me that old fortune (removed, I suppose, because it's not
: >nice to make fun of JC - or at least, not PC) that talks about Jesus and
: >epistology?  The punch line was:  "And Jesus replied: 'What?'".

Check out a KJV version of the bible to get the prologue right. I am
doing it from memory, but it ought to be word for word identical to a
passage in one of the gospels, until Peter deviates from the text. I
think you have to be a theologician (especially a fan of Tillich?) to
appreciate this one.



	When they came unto Caeserea Philippi, Jesus said unto them
		"Who do men say that I am?"
	They answered
		"Some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, or
		one of the prophets come back to life"
	He asked them
		"And you. Who do you say I am?"
	Peter said to him
		"You are the eschatological manifestation of the
		ground of our being, the Kerygma, in whom we find
		the ultimate meaning for our inter-personal
		relationships"
	And Jesus replied
		"What??"



Cheers -- Chris Ho-Stuart
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: fcs@athena.mit.edu (Franklin C. Smith)
Subject: Re: them bi-lingual puns
Keywords: air lingus, lingam, oy is my face red
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:06:47 GMT

In article <1993Jan1.055138.15771@nwnexus.WA.COM> pyotr@halcyon.com (Peter D. Hampe) writes:
........

>They, being native Indians (that's Injah Indians,
>not 'woo-woo' Indians) spying an Irish 'Air Lingus'
>plane commented to his friend in Hindi 'Air Lingam'.

Air Lingus, the "cunning" airline!



Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: dwolff@res-c4.Prime.COM (David Wolff)
Subject: Re: some Soviet emigre restaurant jokes
Organization: Computervision
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:30:32 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.213956.9719@oakhill.sps.mot.com>, bradj@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Brad R. Johnson) writes:
> In article <1992Dec22.125104.1@jaguar.uofs.edu> mam18@jaguar.uofs.edu writes:
> >In article <tls2g9n@rpi.edu>, petitc@vccnw06.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit) writes:
> >> krz@cowan.edu.au (K.WOZNIAK) writes:
> >> 
> >>>Monolingualism is curable.
> >> 
> >>  Well, I think the biggest beef that I'd have with the Russian joke is that:
> >> 
> >> (1) Except for Russians (obviously), very few people speak Russian (that I
> >> know of), and that language isn't widely used.
> >
> >If you don't make this remark in the beginning of the sentense, then it 
> >wouldn't be so obvious for me that Russian isn't widely used.  One should
> >know that there are 290 mln. people in x-USSR, who (you won't believe it)
> >speak Russian.  And also I know a lot of people in other countries, who 
> >speak Russian (Eastern Europe, for example).
> 
> If you don't make those remarks at the beginning and end of your paragraph
> then I will disagree with what you said, which is:
> 
> 	"...Russian isn't widely used."
> 					- Michael Martynov
> >
> >> 
> >> (2) When posting to a worldwide net, it's better to keep it in a language that
> >> many people can understand.  And since money can't be transmitted over the net,
> >> English is a good substitute.  :&)
> >
> >You are too selfish (as all Americans, BTW)!
> 
> You generalize way too much, as do all non-Americans, BTW!
> 
> >                                              Why do you think that English is
> >a good substitute?  Is it because you speak English and are lazy enough not
> >to learn any other language?  Why won't we use great French language, German,
> >or even Japanese?
> 
> ObJoke:  How about Esperanto?

Nu, Esperanto estas al vi nur s^erco?  Ni ne amuzig^as!

David Wolff

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Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: Lenght of a penis is?
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 17:27:47 GMT

In article <1993Jan2.075008.29934@sol.UVic.CA> jcowling@masque.UVic.CA (Scowling Jim Cowling) writes:
|In article <MJD.92Dec29124848@saul.cis.upenn.edu> mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Mark-Jason Dominus) writes:

|>Abraham Lincoln, when asked how long a man's penis should be, replied,
|>``Long enough to reach the ground.''

|I thought it was "Long enough to hit the ground running".

Newsgroups: rec.humor,misc.test
                      ^^^^^^^^^

More likely, "long enough to catch a newbie who doesn't know what the
'Followup-To:' header does".

I'm suprised it wasn't crossposted to talk.bizarre....


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From: darkshot@rock.concert.net (Michael B Garrett -- Chudys)
Subject: Re: Seriously, a joke.
Organization: Ask the maid.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 05:35:26 GMT

Thrifty Scots are in direct response to Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations",1776

The stereotype did not exist prior to publication of this treatise.

Smith was right- and so of course he was damned for his trouble. So much so
that "Scrooge McDuck" and such are cultural icons.


I'm part Scot- and I don't give a damn WHAT anyone thinks. I'm part Irish,
too- and I think that the joke about the wheelbarrow is funny. I guess
I'm just secure in my heritage.

'Shot

Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: kiran@Cadence.COM (Kiran L. Jethwa)
Subject: Re: Limrick
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:31:53 GMT

Here is a small Limrick that you folks might find interesting!

There was a fellow whose name was Dick
Who had poor fellow a corkscrew prick

He spent his time in a lifelong hunt
To find a girl with a spiral cunt

He finished his search in far Glamorgan
Where he found a girl with such an organ

But, on his wedding night he fell down dead
Cause the girl he found, had a left-hand thread!


Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: reid@ucs.indiana.edu (Frank Reid)
Subject: Re: Request: Poem about a Tree. (not limerick)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:11:58 GMT

paul@hsh.com writes:
>> 	I think that I shall never see
>> 	a billboard lovely as a tree.
>> 	Indeed, unless the billboards fall
>> 	I'll never see a tree at all.
>> 				-- not mine
>>Ogden Nash, I think.


           BEER
       by Joyce Kiljoy

I think that I shall never hear
A poem lovelier than beer.
The stuff that Joe's Bar has on tap
With golden base and snowy cap.
The stuff that I can drink all day
Until my mem'ry melts away.
Poems are made by fools, I fear
But only Schlitz can make a beer.

                            -- MAD Magazine ca. 1960

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From: scottm@dg.UUCP (Scott Menzel)
Subject: Re: no arms/ no legs etc.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 15:51:34 GMT
Reply-To: scottm@dg.UUCP (Scott Menzel)
Organization: Data General

They guy in the leaves...three months later?
   Pete
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Do not eat Turkey for Christmass
From: maschler@vms.huji.ac.il (MICHAEL MASCHLER)
Date: 1 Jan 1993 23:00 IDT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

This is a true story:

A scientist in Australia claimes that gases people pass make a hole
in the ozone. He therefore recommended that people do not eat turkey
in Christmass, because it encourages passing gases, and take fruits
and nuts instead.
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: bradj@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Brad R. Johnson)
Subject: Re: More funny riddle
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin Tx.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:00:17 GMT

In article <eaeg160.724796815@orion.oac.uci.edu> eaeg160@orion.oac.uci.edu (Andy Wu) writes:
> There's a bunch of birds hanging around, when suddenly a hunter appears.
> He take a shot and got one of them, but the rest, scared, didn't fly away.
> Why is that?
>
> Ans:  Because all the birds are ostrichs.
>

There's a bunch of dead babies stapled to a tree when suddenly a hunter
appears.  He takes a shot and blows one of the dead babies into many
bloody pieces, but the rest did not fly away.  Why is that?

Brad
From: st1ns@elroy.uh.edu (Ault, Russell W.)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: California is NOT representative of the US as a whole
Date: 2 Jan 1993 20:32 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: elroy.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

(over 90% deleted, with no apparent effect, by the author of same)

In article <1993Jan2.224353.25750@netcom.com>, eclipse@netcom.com (Brian McCullough) writes...
>st1ns@elroy.uh.edu (Ault, Russell W.) writes:
>: In article <i3558.725901920@newsie>, i3558@newsie.dc.dk (Soren Michael Roug) writes...
>: >I seems to me that this discussion is mostly, if not completely carried
>: >out by americans. My advice to you is that if you want to improve your
>: >english language then learn the King's english, not those barbarian dialects
>: >the yanks choose to utter. It is my understanding that the yanks find a
>: >properly spoken UK accent "cute". Well, I won't call myself an expert, but
>: >I have been to USA several times, and some of those wordings one get to
>: >hear notably in California make my toes curl. And behold; In some restaurants
>: >they don't give people utensils to eat with.
>: >-- 
>: 
>: Only a Californian would call California a part of the civilised world. 

>: I guess I'll just have to get my groceries in Nevada.
>: 
>: 
> 
>Complaints about uncivilized behavior -- from a TEXAN???
> 

Quite.  One must eb thoroughly scooled in the true meaning of uncivilised
behavior to be able to recognise it in all its forms.  This is the reason
why Californians cannot detect their own lack of couth.  They are amateurs.
Conversely, mere possession of skill in an art does not imply a love of it.
We Texans (even the natives, of which I am not one) know civilised places
and people when we see them, and we know precisely where to find them when 
we need them.  We consider them to be marvelous things to visit, although
we would prefer not to take up residence there.

>...Brian McCullough (a Coloradan exiled to California for criminal lack of
>prejudice)

What, you made the mistake of saying that five downs were too many, and the
players should have been both able to count that high and sportsmen enough
to admit it?

> 
>ObJoke:
> 
>How many Colorado Springs residents does it take to screw in a light bulb?
> 
>Only one, but it better be a man.  If a woman is caught doing the screwing,
>her civil rights will be revoked.
> 

I thought that if it was a woman, they demanded that she had to be licensed
and inspected and have her hooves dipped before she could engage in those 
activities.    

>-- 
>---------------------------------
>Brian C. McCullough   eclipse@netcom.netcom.com  Opinions of self only
> 
>"The early worm goes forth with zeal to give the hungry birds a meal.
>His brother has no such intention, and lives to draw his old-age pension."
>         -Montagu C. Butler

  My wife went to Harvard and all I got was this lousy .sig!
      Russ Ault, aka st1ns@jetson.uh.edu 
      (For the moment, anyway.  I reserve the right to
       polymorph myself into something more formidable.)

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From: bradj@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Brad R. Johnson)
Subject: Re: RIDDLES (involving no survivors,bears,birds or bus drivers)
Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin Tx.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:12:08 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.103641.16913@reed.edu> mlsmith@reed.edu (Marty L. Smith) writes:
>In article <1992Dec17.230031.13567@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> mrc@dasher.cc.bellcore.com (cole,melody r) writes:
>>>
>>> Is it possible to construct a sentence in English which contains five
>>>consecutive "and"s and doesn't break any rules of English
>>>grammar/syntax/semantics (i.e. it has to make sense)?
>
>People following this thread may also be interested in this challenge: How
>many consecutive prepositions can you end a sentence with *without* quoting.
>That is to say, no talking about the prepositions as words; you have to use
>them for real.  I know one that has five, but I'm sure that can be improved 
>upon.

As far as I know, a preposition is not something one can legally end a
sentence with.  Therefore, you are automatically allowing us to break
the rules of English grammar through to over around near into under.
There, that's seven.

Yeah, I know, it is the spirit of the question that my answer is without.

Brad
Newsgroups: rec.humor,soc.culture.soviet
From: petitc@vccnw06.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit)
Subject: Re: some Soviet emigre restaurant jokes
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:19:10 GMT

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. :&)

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From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: Credit Validation
Date: 31 Dec 92 15:18:24 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

>   In article <NAEEM.92Dec29104546@occs.cs.oberlin.edu> naeem@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Naeem Mohaiemen) writes:
>
>     [ semi-amusing anecdote deleted ]
>
>   >Although true stories, passing around anecdotes like this "for a laugh"
>   >further enhance stereotyping of "foreigner"s as speaking "funny english".
>   >
>   >Naeem Mohaiemen
WIll everyone involved in this thread please move it to rec.humor.d NOW!?

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these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
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From: carlson@cwis.unomaha.edu (Brian D. Carlson)
Subject: Also, rudolph the red
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:07:01 GMT

	Trudy and Nanook the eskimos were planning their annual trek
from Alaska to Washington state when Nanook heard some startling news
over the Russian radio network.

	Nanook: 'Trudy, I don't think we'll be able to make it, Rudy the
		weather man predicts freezing rain'
	Trudy: 'Oh, I can't believe you are falling for that. It must be
		some kind of propoganda to scare people out of having a 
		good time or something. Look outside, it's clear skies, 
		sunny, let's pack the car'
	Nanook: 'OK honey, but I don't know...'

	They pack the car and get to be early for the long journey in
the morning.

	The next day they start off, get 60 miles from home, and it
starts. Before long, the roads are too slick to travel, and Nanook and
Trudy are stuck walking to find a motel for the night.

	Trudy: I suppose you were right, maybe we should have
		stayed home.
	Nanook: Well, Rudolph 'the red' knows rain dear.

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From: jimgar@scorch.apana.org.au (Jim Garner)
Subject: Re: interesting christian-surname combinations
Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:23:10 GMT

cduff@NeoSoft.com (C. Duff) writes:

|My mom's got a newspaper clipping of a guy named Alf Hart (sounds like
|I'll fart) and my dad went to school with a guy named Louis Stool.  
|His nickname was Lou (loose stool).

My favourite is: Ophelia Dix.

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Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: vincent@nb.rockwell.com (Bret Vincent)
Subject: Re: >> Other ways to say vomit..
Organization: Rockwell International
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:02:43 GMT


In article <hhelanto.724991554@vipunen.hut.fi>, hhelanto@vipunen.hut.fi (Henri R Helanto) writes:
> In <2B30BFA0.5741@deneva.sdd.trw.com> kieffer@spf.trw.com (Robert Kieffer) writes:
> 
> >In article <9235010.3928@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> sead@mundoe.maths.mu.OZ.AU  
> >(Sead Mujushi) writes:
> >> In article <jonathan.724311093@author.ecn.purdue.edu>  
> >jonathan@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan L Neuenschwander) writes:
> >> >markc@compnews.co.uk (Mark Cooper) writes:
> >> >>One culled from a Mike Harding song about Australia...
> >> >>Going for a groan down the white telephone...
> >> >Did anyone say spewing?
> >> >Then there's:
> >> >Bazooka barf (particulary nasty.  :-)
> >> >Roaring the rude arc.
> >> >
> >> >Jonathan
> >> 
> >> It might have been already posted but how about ...
> >> 
> >> Crying Ruth (think about it 8^)
> >>                                ,,,
> >"Jet scream"... my college nickname.
> 
> 	A couple of terms I and a couple of my friends use...
> 
> 	"Speaking norwegian" (no offense to norwegians intended!)
> 
> 	"Talking to porcelain telephone"
> 
> -Henri


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From: mlsmith@reed.edu (Marty L. Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.humor
Subject: Re: RIDDLES (involving no survivors,bears,birds or bus drivers)
Date: 22 Dec 92 10:36:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Dec22.103641.16913
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon

In article <1992Dec17.230031.13567@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> mrc@dasher.cc.bellcore.com (cole,melody r) writes:
>>
>> Is it possible to construct a sentence in English which contains five
>>consecutive "and"s and doesn't break any rules of English
>>grammar/syntax/semantics (i.e. it has to make sense)?

People following this thread may also be interested in this challenge: How
many consecutive prepositions can you end a sentence with *without* quoting.
That is to say, no talking about the prepositions as words; you have to use
them for real.  I know one that has five, but I'm sure that can be improved 
upon.
Newsgroups: rec.humor
From: cameron@coral.cs.jcu.edu.au (Cameron Gregory)
Subject: Re: baby jokes if u please.
Organization: James Cook University
Date: 24 Dec 92 06:26:24 GMT

My all time favourite..

Q. How do you stop a baby falling down a manhole?
A. Stick a javelin through it's head.

Q. Whats red and sits in front of a mirror?
A. Baby combing its hair with a potato peeler.

Q. Whats more fun that spinning a baby on clothes line?
A. Stopping it with a shovel.

Cameron
cameron@corona.att.com
Newsgroups: rec.humor