The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #8715   Message #299257
Posted By: GUEST,John Bauman
17-Sep-00 - 11:23 AM
Thread Name: Mudcat's Future
Subject: RE: Mudcat's Future
This forum reminds me of the old joke;

A guy walks into a hall with hundreds of folks sitting around tables, casually visting. Every minute or so one of them would stand up and shout out a number, at which point the entire room would break out in uproarious laughter. Curious, the fellow taps one of the participants on the shoulder and asks for an explanation. "We're a convention of commedians and joke writers" says the fellow. "Since we are all so familiar with the material we have simply numbered all the jokes in order to save time." At this point the guy decides to try this out and shouts out "74!". Dead silence. The conventioneer turns back to the visitor, sneer on his face, and says, "You told it wrong!"

Your sieve is of much finer mesh than you seem to be aware. I hope your forum continues for a long, long time. My guess is that it will until your core gets weary of it.

John