Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!microsoft!uw-beaver!ubc-visi!sfucmpt!art From: art@sfucmpt (Art liestman) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: sources Message-ID: <150@sfucmpt.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Aug-83 14:27:31 EDT Article-I.D.: sfucmpt.150 Posted: Tue Aug 2 14:27:31 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Aug-83 16:35:37 EDT Lines: 21 Several versions of the "pardon me roy" joke have appeared in net.jokes recently. I am rather fond of this form (which Espy calls "Puns in Perpetuity") but it would be nice to hear some *new* ones. I know of two collections of these beasts : 'The Compleat Feghoot' by Grendel Briarton (Mirage Press, Baltimore, 1975) and 'Pardon me Roy, & Other Groaners' by Robert C. Cumbow (Pinnacle Books, New York, 1983). Does anyone know of other such compendia? Several other books and articles have contained these punny parables (part of Cumbow's subtitle) but these are the only sources that I know of that are dedicated to this genre. The game of making up plurals has also appeared in net.jokes. The best source for this amusement is 'An Exaltation of Larks: Or the Venereal Game' by James Lipton (Penguin, 1977). Lipton explores the history of this form of plural. (Do you know the origin of "school of fish"?) At the end of the book he proposes several new plurals and invites readers to join in the game.