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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
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Subject: Re: clothes hanger metamorphosis
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Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 09:00:25 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 19 09:00:25 1984
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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