Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat From: wombat@uicsl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Recurring jokes, a la 'Ignited ...' - (nf) Message-ID: <6193@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 22:38:37 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.6193 Posted: Thu Mar 15 22:38:37 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Mar-84 03:57:07 EST Lines: 13 #N:uicsl:6000002:000:520 uicsl!wombat Mar 15 14:48:00 1984 Every now and then, a new joke will pop up, and within a few days there are twenty other versions of it on the net. Is this because they all got the joke from the same place (a movie or tv, say) or someone saw it on the net and told it to someone else who though "great joke, i gotta post it" or maybe the phenomenon whereby ten people simultaneously invent the telephone because all the pieces are ready to be put together or what? More important, how can this be avoided? Wombat ihnp4!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat