From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxj!mhuxi!mhuxv!burl!sb1!ll1!ihldt!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcdaniel
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: NO MORE LIGHTBULB JOKES - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1544
Posted: Tue Feb 22 22:29:00 1983
Received: Thu Feb 24 01:57:23 1983

#N:uiucdcs:9900083:000:1193
uiucdcs!mcdaniel    Feb 22 19:16:00 1983

There is no such thing as a new lightbulb joke (no, not even the
mouse one). Most of the longer-term readers of this
notesfile/newsfile have seen every d***ed one of them.

At least six times.

In the past year alone.

It is true that csu-cs!illeman and burdvax!coltoff could not have
known about the history of this newsfile (assuming no malice) --
I forgive them. However, I propose that anyone else who,
after seeing this warning, posts such stale jokes ("old as the
hills and twice as dusty", to coin a cliche) be declared anathema*
until they repent of their heinous** sin.

				Disgustedly yours,
                                Tim McDaniel
                                (. . . pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcdaniel)

* anath-e-ma: n. [LL anathemat-, anathema, fr. Gk thing devoted to evil,
	curse, . . . ]
	1 a : a ban or curse solemnly pronounced by ecclesiastical
	authority and accompanied by excommunication [exclusion from
	fellowship in a group or community]   b : the denunciation
	of anything as accursed  . . . 2 b : one that is
	intensely disliked or loathed

** hei-nous: adj. [ME, fr. MF haineus, fr. haine hate . . . ]
	hatefully or shockingly evil : ABOMINABLE 
	syn: see OUTRAGEOUS