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Re: T-shirt Idea
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lugnet.off-topic.pun
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Sun, 30 May 1999 23:09:28 GMT
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On Wed, 5 May 1999 23:07:06 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
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> 1 - Isaac Asimov was a master punster. He spoke of such a joke or story
> as being a "shaggy dog story", and he had one story that was the
> shaggiest of shaggy dog stories. It had a specially chosen title, which
> itself was a pun. Do you know what it was? For extra credit, what was
> the punchline?
I'm fairly sure I've read this one... It was a SF-y type Asdimov,
IIRC. But then, he wrote these types of things several times. Is it on
a par with Niven's chocolate covered manhole covers,. though?
Jasper
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| (...) That whole thing was a set up for the pun(ch) line. (1) I trimmed followups to just .pun 1 - Isaac Asimov was a master punster. He spoke of such a joke or story as being a "shaggy dog story", and he had one story that was the shaggiest of (...) (26 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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