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From: thb@unisoft.UUCP (Tim Bessie)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: We were so poor that...
Message-ID: <485@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 12:04:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 25 12:04:40 1985
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Reply-To: thb@unisoft.UUCP (Tim Bessie)
Organization: UniSoft Systems, Berkeley
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In article <229@luke.UUCP> steven@luke.UUCP (Steven List) writes:
> ...
>We were so poor that we carved a turnip for Halloween.

That's no joke!  In the British Isles, the custom around Halloween was
to carve a turnip (they didn't have pumpkins, ya know).

Anyway, a joke:

How many Zen Buddists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

(pause)... (pause pause pause)... (don't say anything... that's the joke)