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)