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- From: intgrec@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (CHRIS GREB)
- Subject: RE: DOES ANYONE REMEMBER?
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- Date: 22 Dec 1992 14:17 EST
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- In article <1992Dec22.093533.16805@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> seifert@yesac
- ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Rick.Seifert) writes:
-
- >In article <25148.1065.uupcb@satalink.com> vince.maiocco@satalink.com (Vince Maiocco) writes:
- >>In the 60's, when I was in High School, there was a rash of
- >>a kind of joke I had never hear before or since, and I'm
- >>wondering if it was unique to us, or the region, or whatever.
- >>The jikes literally made no sense at all and I guess that's
- >>where the humor came from. Does anyone remember anything
- >>like these:
- >>
- >>Q: Why is an orange?
- >>A: Because motorcycles dont have windshields.
- >>
- >>or:
- >>
- >>Q: What's the difference between an orange?
- >>A: The refrigerator has to be turned off.
- >>
- >>TIA for any valid responses.
- >>
- >
- >Two thoughts on this:
- >
- >1) My father told us "joke" all our lives which made no sense to us. He did
- >this over and over until we always answered with the correct response.
- >
- >Q) Why do pigs whistle?
- >A) Because Ice Cream has no bones
- >
- >2) Sometime during the early or mid seventies we had a set of jokes we called
- >refrigerator jokes. It was more of a set up than a real joke. Several of
- >us would get together ahead of time and plan to laugh real hard at an
- >the prescribed "punchline" to see if we could make someone else laugh. Then we
- >would embarrass the new guy by asking him why he was laughing.
- >
- >The refrigerator joke I remember went something like this:
- >
- >There were three elephants in a bathtub, a mama elephant, a daddy elephant, and
- >a baby elephant. The mama elephant turned to the daddy elephant and asked,
- >"Do you have the bar of soap", the daddy elephant turned to the baby elephant
- >and asked, ""Do you have the bar of soap?", and the baby elephant replied,
- >"What do you think I am, a refrigerator?" <----Punchline
- >
- I've heard a similar joke, only it was two elephants and when the first
- asked for the soap, the second replied "No soap, radio" (that's the
- "punchline")
-
- We still get a pretty good laugh out of the punchline. It's sort of become
- an inside joke with myself and my friends from school.
-
- -- Chris
- >>
- >>--- WinQwk 2.0 a#0
- >>
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