From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihps3!houxi!npois!npoiv!alice!rabbit!ss
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: jokes
Article-I.D.: rabbit.748
Posted: Tue Sep 14 17:07:30 1982
Received: Wed Sep 15 05:10:30 1982

 During a visit to an insane asylum while soliciting votes, prospective
senator Glup was puzzled by the behaviour of a number of inmates, who
were sitting in a circle calling out numbers.  As each number was called,
the people in the group burst out into laughter.

 After watching this for a while the prospective senator collared an inmate
who was passing by, and asked him what was going on.
"They are telling jokes." was the surprised response.
"But these are just numbers."

The inmate broke into a grin as he listened with Glup to the group.
"Oh, these people have been here so long, that they know all of one
another's jokes. To save time, they have numbered their jokes. Now,
when they want to tell a joke they just call out the number."

After some time Glup observed,
 "Why do those two in the corner always laugh, even when the others don't?."
 "That's because they have arrived here just today, and are therefore
hearing these jokes for the first time!!"

					S.Singhal
					rabbit!ss