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- From: ath@linkoping.trab.se (Anders Thulin)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: Doing it the right way
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.120211.7045@linkoping.trab.se>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 12:02:11 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.192800.22278W@viper.edb.tih.no>
- Organization: Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
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- In article <1992Nov10.192800.22278W@viper.edb.tih.no> terjej@edb.tih.no writes:
- >After my 'Flames over America'-posting, I received some flames, some
- >'I-agree''s - and this pearl! Enjoy!
-
- No, thank you. I have other plans.
-
- >Once upon a time there was a young man who had a dream. He wanted to go
- >to the Olympics, and he wanted to win a gold medal in the high diving
- >championship.
-
- [ ... etc, etc. Fairly good writing - keeps your interest.
- But all it leads up to is ... ]
-
- >I've been through many a hard ship before."
-
- Tsk-Tsk. A pun. And not even a good one. Boring.
-
- That's probably what distinguishes real humor: it's funny the second
- time as well.
-
- --
- Anders Thulin ath@linkoping.trab.se 013-23 55 32
- Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
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