today's humor

[Meg Larson]

Too damn familiar, but I laughed anyway.

"Too many textbooks and discussions leave students free to make up their
minds about things"
                                  --- Mel Gabler, Texas textbook critic 

Meg Larson
Saginaw Valley State University
mgl at tardis.svsu.edu              

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> From: MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: today's humor
> Date: Thursday, March 06, 1997 3:11 PM
> 
> Though I was of course only joking last week when I said I was gonna post
those daily
>  jokes from my friend, I found today's offering too rich to resist,
especially in view of how
>  some of our own--reasoning--chains have been unfolding. Enjoy.
> 
> john m
> ************************
> >Date: Wednesday, March 05, 1997 12:39PM
> >
> ><< 00000000.TXT : 3642 in 00000000.TXT >>
> >> Neighbor 1: "Hi, there, new neighbor, it sure is a mighty nice day to
be
> >> moving"
> >>
> >> New Neighbor: "Yes, it is and people around here seem extremely
> >> friendly"
> >>
> >> Neighbor 1:   "So what is it you do for a living?"
> >>
> >> New Neighbor:"I am a professor at the University, I teach deductive
> >> reasoning"
> >>
> >> Neighbor 1:   "Deductive reasoning, what is that?"
> >>
> >> New Neighbor: "Let me give you an example. I see you have a dog house
> >> out back.  By that I deduce that you have a dog."
> >>
> >> Neighbor 1:   "That is right"
> >>
> >> New Neighbor:"The fact that you have a dog, leads me to deduce that
> >> you have a family"
> >>
> >> Neighbor 1:   "Right again"
> >>
> >> New Neighbor: "Since you have a family I deduce that you have a wife"
> >>
> >> Neighbor 1:   "Correct"
> >>
> >> New Neighbor:"And since you have a wife, I can deduce that you are
> >> heterosexual."
> >>
> >> Neighbor 1:   "Yup"
> >>
> >> New Neighbor: "That is deductive reasoning"
> >>
> >> Neighbor 1:   "Cool"
> >>
> >> Later that same day...
> >>
> >> Neighbor 1:   "Hey, I was talking to that new guy who moved in next
> >> door"
> >>
> >> Neighbor 3:   "Is he a nice guy?"
> >>
> >> Neighbor 1:   "Yes, and he has an interesting job"
> >>
> >> Neighbor 3:   "Oh, yeah what does he do?"
> >>
> >> Neighbor 1:   "He is a professor of deductive reasoning at the
> >> university"
> >>
> >> Neighbor 3:   "Deductive reasoning, what is that"
> >>
> >> Neighbor 1:   "Let me give you an example.  Do you have a dog house?"
> >>
> >> Neighbor 3:   "No"
> >>
> >> Neighbor 1:   "Fag."
> **********************
> Does this sound scarily familiar or what?
>