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Re: T-shirt Idea
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Date: 
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 (...) (27 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)

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