Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.9 3/12/85; site unisoft.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!dual!unisoft!thb From: thb@unisoft.UUCP (Tim Bessie) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: We were so poor that... Message-ID: <490@unisoft.UUCP> Date: Sun, 7-Jul-85 02:52:28 EDT Article-I.D.: unisoft.490 Posted: Sun Jul 7 02:52:28 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 15:20:59 EDT References: <531@deepthot.UUCP> <137@telesoft.UUCP> <229@luke.UUCP> <485@unisoft.UUCP> <726@utcs.UUCP> Reply-To: thb@unisoft.UUCP (Tim Bessie) Organization: UniSoft Systems, Berkeley Lines: 29 In article <726@utcs.UUCP> adam@utcs.UUCP (Adam R. Iles) writes: >In article <485@unisoft.UUCP> thb@unisoft.UUCP (Tim Bessie) writes: >>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) > > >No! No! It's two ... > >One to skrew in the light bulb, and one not to. >-- Actually, I flubbed up. It's: Q: How many Zen buddiests does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: 3. One to screw in the light bulb. (end of joke) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ It is, predominantly, fun. It wasn't always that way, but it is now. There seems to be no limit to it, this delight. Vistas are constantly opening up. Older generations would have a hard time understanding this, because of various psychological hang-ups, such as the Protestant Work Ethic and Freud. But we don't think about the past, not any more. - Thomas Disch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------