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From: akhanna@bbncc5.UUCP (ATUL C KHANNA)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Cartoon quotes on the net
Message-ID: <1122@bbncc5.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 14:09:41 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  8 14:09:41 1985
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Reply-To: akhanna@bbncc5.UUCP (ATUL C KHANNA)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA
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>>>Could all of you cartoon quote o phobes please move the whole
>>>discussion to net.games.trivia, where there is already a cartoon
>>>quote discussion.  There is much less traffic in that group, and
>>>is a more appropiate place.
>>>
>>>-- 
>>>
>>
>>What's wrong with the cartoon quotes in net.jokes??  I think I've enjoyed
>>reading net.jokes more since they've been posting them.  I think they are
>>just fine where they are, and more entertaining than people who keep telling
>>other people to post their things elsewhere.  So, keep 'em coming, y'all!!
>>
>>(Elephant to Elmer Fudd who is considering Buggs Bunny's suggestion to
>>use an elephant gun for hunting, 
>>	"You do, and I'll give you SUCH a PINCH!!"  )
>>

>I agree with Melinda.... After Bugs gets the Aussie Aborigini stuck in
>his rabbit hole, he starts tickling his feet, the native giggles and
>Bugs says, "How Nature Boy can you get?"
>
 
A cartoon quote without the accompanying illustration just is NOT the
same.  We shouldn't be discussing them, and certainly not in
net.jokes.  Otherwise, before you know it, people are going to be
posting entire `comedy-film' scripts to the net - something we can certainly 
do without !


-- 
Atul C Khanna
BBN Communications Corporation, Cambridge MA