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Thread #36053   Message #495740
Posted By: catspaw49
01-Jul-01 - 01:04 AM
Thread Name: ART THIEME's Humour in Reader's Digest
Subject: RE: ART THIEME's Humour in Reader's Digest
Ah Art.....Thanks for "coming clean" but we still love you.

I was gonna' out you anyway as the joke has roots clear back to Vaudeville and probably beyond. The thing here is that a great joke, like a great song, needs to be repeated! Because it's old doesn't make it bad but the advent of radio and TV made the demand for new jokes very high. But a classic is always a classic. Groucho used to talk about that a lot and he was right.

Spaw