Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!decwrl!amd70!fortune!stanton From: stanton@fortune.UUCP (W. Dean Stanton) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Telegram Message-ID: <3631@fortune.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 14:39:52 EDT Article-I.D.: fortune.3631 Posted: Tue Jun 19 14:39:52 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 05:59:55 EDT References: <784@trwrba.UUCP> Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 16 I would not correct anyone else's Telegram Joke, but ... I heard another one. My mother, old enough to know, says a telegram's base rate is for *10 words*. Hence the message: BRUISES HURT. ERASED AFFORD. ERECTOR. ANALYSIS HURT, TOO; INFECTIOUS DEAD. I don't know if punctuation was included in the base rate, but I added it to provide "readability". - Dean Stanton UUCP: {ihnp4,ucbvax!amd70,hpda,sri-unix,harpo}!fortune!stanton USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065 Phone: (415) 595-8444