Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!ucla-cs!srt From: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Timeless Joke Message-ID: <7460@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 13:25:43 EST Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.7460 Posted: Wed Nov 6 13:25:43 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 03:28:50 EST References: <104100033@uiucuxc> Reply-To: srt@ucla-cs.UUCP (Scott Turner) Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 32 [ Oh my God! It's the bellringer joke. Again. And again. And again...] With his anniversary fast approaching, Joe was shopping around town for a present for his wife. She really wanted a grandfather clock for the living room. Finally, after many hours of searching, Joe found just the clock he wanted. ``I'll take it'' Joe told the salesman, ``Can you have it delivered tomorrow?'' ``No, I'm afraid not,'' replied the salesman, ``We aren't open on Fridays.'' Joe explained how he needed the clock for his anniversary the next day. No problem, says the salesman, he'll loan Joe some carrying straps and Joe can carry the clock home tonight. As Joe only lives a few blocks away, this seems feasible, so Joe pays for the clock, hoists it up on his back and staggers off for home. On the way home, Joe passes by a bar. Just as he reaches the door of the bar a drunk stumbles out, hits Joe, and they both end up in the gutter, with the grandfather clock smashed into a thousand pieces. ``My God!'' screams Joe, jumping up from the wreckage, ``You lousy drunk! Look what you've done! Why don't you watch where you're going?!" With quiet dignity the drunk stood up somewhat unsteadily and dusted himself off. ``And why don't you wear a wristwatch like a normal person?'' Scott R. Turner ARPA: (now) srt@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA (soon) srt@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU UUCP: ...!{cepu,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!srt SPUDNET: ...eye%srt@russet.spud