From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!ihuxi!otto
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: Dumb Jokes again and again . . .
Article-I.D.: ihuxi.171
Posted: Thu Jun 24 18:16:49 1982
Received: Mon Jun 28 03:28:52 1982
Reply-To: huxi!otto


I guess when a new joke hits a site, 3 or 4 people rush as fast as they
can to be the first to put it on the net.  Unfortunately, they don't
check to see if they got beat ... they just send the joke out, then read
the news to see if they were the first.  I think this explains why we
are seeing several cases of the same joke coming from the same site
three or four times within minutes of each other.

George Otto
Bell Labs, Indian Hill
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