Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: clothes hanger metamorphosis Message-ID: <813@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 09:00:25 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxa.813 Posted: Tue Jun 19 09:00:25 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 07:45:05 EDT References: <1942@sdccsu3.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 24 The coat hanger multilplying joke was one of George Carlin's earliest routines from the early 60's or late 50's, before he became very well known. I saw him do it back then and choked on my Geritol laughing so hard. It is true, however, that if you place two coat hangers in a dark closet for about six weeks, you will have at least forty when you look again. All coat hangers are grown. Has anyone ever actually seen a coat hanger factory? It is nothing more than thousands of closets where the little rascals are bred. The wooden hangers that we have all found in our closets are the result of a strange mutation that only occurs when a new garmet is placed in with a bunch of normal wire hangers. The ones with small paper tubes making up the bottom rung are hangers that were removed from the closet before the matured. Plastic hangers are just a sub-species of the wire hanger that was bred to serve as a non-fertile substitute, sort of like mules, so that stores would not have the problem of too many wire hangers breding in their storage areas. Is anyone interested in Flug, another Carlin discovery? T. C. Wheeler