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From: lkk@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Standard Responses
Message-ID: <816@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 09:55:56 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 24 09:55:56 1985
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Reply-To: lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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Summary: 


All this talk about standard (humorous) responses (Thats what she said...), 
reminds me of a genre of joke that I picked up at MIT, the
I-just-met-her-joke.

The original one was:
"Liquor Locker.... I just met her!"

later there was...

"Butcher.... I just met her!"
"Baker.... I just met her!!"
and the real dousie...
"Candlestick Maker.... I just met her!"

Eventually, it got to the point where we wouldn't even
use words that ended in ER, just ones which sort of sounded
like they did...

"Africa... I just met her"

I became totally absurdist humor....

"Fish... I just met her!!!"


I was once told that I-just-met-her jokes were
actually a Dada form of humor in the 20's.

-- 

Sport Death,
Larry Kolodney
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