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Thread #36053   Message #495630
Posted By: Art Thieme
30-Jun-01 - 08:15 PM
Thread Name: ART THIEME's Humour in Reader's Digest
Subject: RE: ART THIEME's Humour in Reader's Digest
Kat,

Thanks for speaking well of me and my efforts but I didn't originate that story. It's an old tall tale/joke/whatever that I first heard told by a great storyteller (who most folks knew as a stand up comic) nameMYRON COHEN.

Some commercial also used the little tale quite recently but I heard Mr. Cohen tell it at least 25 years ago.

Art