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Re: T-shirt Idea
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Wed, 2 Jun 1999 15:33:55 GMT
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On Wed, 5 May 1999 23:07:06 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote:

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?

Was it worse than the "Furry with the syringe on top"?  Or "Give my big
hearts to Maude, Wayne; Dismember me for Harold's choir"?[1]

Steve

1- That one's not quite right, but the correct answer sounds very close to
this.



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  Re: T-shirt Idea
 
(...) 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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