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