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