Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 Fluke 1/4/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!kurt From: kurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: canonical collection of light bulb jokes Message-ID: <965@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 17:51:55 EST Article-I.D.: vax2.965 Posted: Tue Mar 6 17:51:55 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 08:42:24 EST Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA Lines: 31 I am sorry. I was the one who posted the canonical collection of light bulb jokes. I did this because the same light bulb jokes would appear on the net every 6-9 months, usually at the beginning of an acedemic quarter. I reasoned that, if all the light bulb jokes were posted at once, net news readers would be free of them at once. I submitted the canonical collection once before, about six months ago. The results were dramatic...light bulb jokes stopped appearing on the net! There were a couple more; a few I'd never heard, and one 60-line monster not worth remembering (It was just an elaboration of one I'd posted). So, when the dreaded bulb jokes made their evil appearance again, I dusted off the old file and boldly submitted it to you the readers. Imagine my surprise when the tried-and-true formula failed completely. Well, not completely. As before, people have not submitted any of the old, funny-once- but-not-when-repeated bulb jokes. Instead, they've taken to submitting new, funny-never, almost random light bulb jokes. These random, derivative bulb jokes are not worth the space in the canonical collection. (And I'm a person who always loves a bulb joke.) Sigh. And now, a joke...provided by mail by a reader. I'd never heard it. Q: How many brewers does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: About 1/3rd less than for a regular bulb. I am committing suicide now...aarrgghh!!!!.... . -- Kurt Guntheroth John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. {uw-beaver,decvax!microsof,ucbvax!lbl-csam,allegra,ssc-vax}!fluke!kurt