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- From: vince.maiocco@satalink.com (Vince Maiocco)
- Newsgroups: rec.humor
- Subject: Re: Where do jokes get st
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 17:36:00 GMT
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- Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
- Reply-To: vince.maiocco@satalink.com (Vince Maiocco)
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- HA>|> The truth is that jokes are the independent variable in an
- HA>extraterrestrial social science experiement
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- Oh, OK! See, I had always heard that they came from the Joke
- Fairy(even the homophobic ones), who is a sprite-like creature,
- born during the Golden Age of Greece, who travels the world,
- recycling the three original jokes. What I heard happens is,
- TJF(The Joke Fairy) started out with 3 jokes(the one about the
- traveling salesman and the farmer's daughter, the one about the
- guy who walks into a bar, and the original dumb blonde joke) from
- Greece and travelled to Troy and told them to some locals. Then
- he went to each country, in turn, retelling the joke, without
- embellishment or variations of any kind(he is, after all, TJF).
- As his travels eventually brought him back to his point of origin,
- he would tell the jokes again and someone would tell him three
- similar jokes they had heard recently(actually, they were the same
- three jokes, but modified greatly as a result of the
- "whisper-down-the=lane phwnomenon). He then took these new jokes
- and made the rounds again... and again... adding to the world's
- arsenal of humor. Well, as the number of countries and the size
- of the civilized world, grew, so did the variations on the three
- original jokes, being modified by temperment, ethnic variety and
- the current state of world politics and other global conditions.
- This also explains why there are so few "Dark Ages" jokes. As an
- aside, most of the "jewish-joke" variations come from Western
- Europe, while the Dumb blonde variants come mainly from Southeast
- Asia. The "Why did the chicken cross the road?" variety stems
- from the African Continent and, as you all probably already know,
- Knock-knock jokes originated in Poland, but nobody understood
- them, so Czechoslovakia(sp?) usually got the credit. But, you're
- saying this isn't how it actually happened, huh? Oh, well, I
- guess I should've realized it was just a story when I learned the
- truth about Santa Claus<G>.
- Speaking of which, Happy Holidays to all on the Net.
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