From: utzoo!decvax!cca!csin!cjh
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: definition
Article-I.D.: csin.147
Posted: Sun Jun 20 23:41:10 1982
Received: Thu Jun 24 01:35:42 1982

In response to your message of Sun Jun 20 20:07:37 1982:

   A recent issue of CHEMICAL & ENGINEERING NEWS claims to have gotten
this over the transom (so much for somebody's survey concerning the
origins of jokes---maybe the stork brings them?):

An economist is someone who, when you forget your telephone number, will
estimate it for you.