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Thread #59650   Message #951891
Posted By: Amos
13-May-03 - 02:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: Where do jokes come from?
Subject: RE: BS: Where do jokes come from?
People invent stories with funny punch lines, usually based on the patterns of past jokes (hence the plethora of guy walks into a bar), and try them out on a small circle of beta testers. They get spontaneously distributed if they surivive.


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