Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!lincoln From: lincoln@eosp1.UUCP (Dick Lincoln) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Y A Egregious Pun Message-ID: <1156@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 11:34:07 EDT Article-I.D.: eosp1.1156 Posted: Mon Oct 1 11:34:07 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 06:01:15 EDT Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 44 I believe this has not yet been on the net (who would dare?). A young music conservatory graduate was hired by a state mental asylum as a musical therapist for the "seriously mentally disadvantaged". A collateral duty was to attempt to form a choir from some of the worst cases which would perform small public concerts to jerk on heart strings and thus loosen purse strings at both the private and state legislative levels. At first teaching these people to sing proved impossible, so the new therapist decided to try simple Reinforcement Psychology. He discovered that some of his charges loved apples, so he started to reward them with apples whenever they managed to sing a simple phrase correctly. Others were wild about diet soda, so he rewarded them with Tab. Suddenly the whole thing caught on, and soon he had an entire choir singing four part harmony well enough to be respectable in public. So he took the act on the road, as [Look Out!] The Moron Tab'nApple Choir! [oooooooooooo!]