From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsovax!pat
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: S o r r y
Article-I.D.: uicsovax.179
Posted: Tue May 11 18:25:24 1982
Received: Wed May 12 03:33:45 1982

....  looks like our "notesfiles" networking stuff has a bit of a problem
and some (all ?) people got my "cross roads" messages as a bunch of:
	X's
That was not the real joke (or should I say yoke ?).  Boy I bet I get
all kinds of poison mail about that screw-up.............. XXXXX

Anyway, the REAL text was:

Why did the punk rocker cross the road ?



Answer:

Because he (yes HE) was stapled to a chicken !!    (worth the trouble, eh ?)