From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!uwvax!doug
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: Re: Where Do Jokes Come From? (Discussion)
Article-I.D.: uwvax.418
Posted: Fri Jun 11 19:57:50 1982
Received: Sun Jun 13 02:11:54 1982
References: sdcsvax.2078


I recall it the way the first person did:  all jokes were old
(new ones were just variations on some themes) and once we found
out what was going on nothing was funny anymore.