A joke with a slow fuse

[Bryan Snyder]

<sees something whooshing by overhead>

On 3/14/07, Glenn Scheper <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > ... the one i don't get is the this one...
>
> Since you're talking about jokes, I had thought to write
> earlier, that I didn't get this one in Dave Monroe's reply,
> looking for some body of writing after the introduction.
>
> || On 3/8/07, Glenn Scheper <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net> wrote:
> ||
> || > Gee. I didn't mention pornography.
> ||
> || "My first encounter with Delta was with 'first differences'."
> ||
> || I never thought I'd be writing to your magazine, but ...
>
> Seeing none, I thought it might be a premature emission.
> Another e-mail would surely come apologizing for a slip.
> I saved it anyway, but regarded it as empty, meaningless.
>
> Three or four hours later, I went out to smoke, and I
> could feel myself broadly grinning as if finally hit me.
> My tantric filter was off after writing on serious math.
>
> But Dave Monroe's was sharp! I already wondered before:
> Has anybody ever met this Dave Monroe person in person?
> Might Dave Monroe be a Pynchon pseudonym on this list?
>
> Yours truly,
> Glenn Scheper
> http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
> glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
> Copyleft(!) Forward freely.
>
>
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