Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site harvard.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!genrad!wjh12!harvard!larry From: larry@harvard.UUCP (Larry Denenberg) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: credit where credit is due Message-ID: <273@harvard.UUCP> Date: Mon, 18-Jun-84 10:53:14 EDT Article-I.D.: harvard.273 Posted: Mon Jun 18 10:53:14 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 02:48:45 EDT Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard Lines: 7 The Isaac Asimov story in which the premise is that jokes are of extraterrestrial origin is called (I think) "Jokester" and is reprinted in _Earth_Is_Room_Enough_. Mr. Pope may, indeed, have had this as an independent thought, but methinks he must subconsciously remember the short story since Asimov makes the same exception for puns: people make them up, but they don't count.