RE: [PEN-L:30527] RE: Re: Re: humor
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From: Devine, James
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Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 3:52 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:30531] RE: RE: Re: Re: humor
I sent the following message:
>it's more likely that Joanna's browser is
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30527] RE: Re: Re: humor
I sent the following message:
>it's more likely that Joanna's browser isn't currently set up to read "newsgroups." Mine isn't either. <
this appears in the archive of the listserver.
but the following is what I got from the list in MS Outlook:
Louis Proyect wrote:
>Actually, the character who inspired this thread--one Joe Queenan--is a
>frequent guest on the Don Imus show, which along with the Howard Stern
>show, encapsulates what's wrong with mainstream humor. Unlike the Marx
>Brothers, Mark Twain or Jonathan Swift, humor on these sho
>I think it is more general than that. I have been in situations, some
>dating back 20 years, some a lot more recent, where members of priveleged
>groups (rich whites, male physicians, etc.) Told crude anti-black,
>anti-semetic, anti-women jokes and if you didn't "go along" by laughing, the
>resp
Okay. Seeing how this is completely pointless:
Q. How many surrealists does it take to screw in a
light bulb?
A. Fish.
--- "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How many real men does it take to screw in
> a light bulb?
> Answer: None. Real men are not afraid of the
How many real men does it take to screw in
a light bulb?
Answer: None. Real men are not afraid of the dark.
How many Jewish mothers does it take to screw
in a light bulb?
Answer: None. They would rather suffer in the darkness.
How many WASPs does it take to screw in a li
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From: "Jim Devine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 11:40 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:9763] Re: Re: RE: Re: humor
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> >How many economists does it take to flog a joke about ligh
At 02:27 PM 3/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >Q: How many neoclassical economists
> does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: The bulb would not have burned out in the first
place if not for government regulation.
Eric
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>How many economists does it take to flog a joke about light bulbs into
>oblivion?
>
>Ian
at least it's not a pointless flame-war, though of course the latter would
make screwing in the light bulb unnecessary.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
At 02:27 PM 3/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Q: How many neoclassical economists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: It's hard to tell, but one thing we know is that the government can't be
trusted to do so!
or:
A: first we have to prove that the light bulb exists!
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED
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