From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:CAD:ESVAX:Cory:cc-18
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: Re: Where Do Jokes Come From? (Discussion)
Article-I.D.: ucbcory.732
Posted: Fri Jun 11 02:13:44 1982
Received: Sat Jun 12 00:48:06 1982

Isaac Asimov once conjectured in an SF story that jokes were planted
by an alien intelligence which was running pyschological experiments
on mankind.  The kicker was that, once we realized what jokes were FOR,
we wouldn't find them funny anymore.

I admit to composing a couple of bona fide jokes (and lots of puns,
limericks, etc--did you hear the Biology Department just got a
VAX of Life?), but nothing clean enough for net.jokes.

Michael Chastain
ucbvax!cory:cc-18  (UUCP)
Cory.cc-18@Berkeley  (ARPA)