[3239] in Humor
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gif)
Wed Jul 12 18:47:59 2000
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:47:40 -0400
From: gif <gif@MIT.EDU>
A blond is walking along the street when she comes across a man
jumping up and down on a manhole cover chanting, "Forty-one...
Forty-one... Forty-one..."
She approaches the man and asks him what he's doing. He just glares
at her. "This is so unfair!" she whines. "People are always making
fun of blonds, but how am I supposed to ever know what's going on if
people won't tell me?"
The strange man studies her for a moment. Slowly, he then responds,
"Well... tell you what. If you jump up and down on the manhole cover
for me for a minute, I can explain it to you.
The blond enthusiastically agreed.
She began jumping while chanting "Forty-one... Forty-one..." On her
third jump, the man whips the manhole cover out from under her, and
she plunges into the murky depths screaming.
The man replaces the cover and begins jumping again, chanting,
"Forty-two... Forty-two..."
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For years a secret shame destroyed my peace --
I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNiece.
But now I think a thought that brings me hope:
Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope.
-- Justin Richardson.
