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- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: No news is good news?
- Date: 26 Dec 1992 22:48:22 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
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- Some bozo in rec.humor."funny" writes:
- >(A *really* old story - I heard this one as a child from my great
- >uncle, who had heard it as a child around the turn of the century
- >on some primordial predecessor of the phonograph. Send me e-mail
- >if you can identify its author.)
- > [very old story deleted]
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- A variant of this appears in McGuffey's Fifth Reader, which dates from 1879.
- It does not list any author, however. Boccaccio's Decameron has a somewhat
- less developed version, written in the 1325-1360 era, and it was probably
- an apocryphal story at that time. I don't know of any earlier references,
- but I can ask a good friend who teaches pre-renaissance literature.
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- You should be ashamed of yourself for posting a joke this old.
- --scott
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