joanna bujes wrote:
Don't forget news://alt.politics.socialism.trotsky!
Doug
Hey Doug. Netscape says it can't find it. Was THAT the joke? Well,
too bad, cause this is my one and only chance to tell my Trotsky
joke:
Heavens no. I haven't visited it in ages. I can't remember the last
time I
Doug Henwood wrote:
joanna bujes wrote:
Don't forget news://alt.politics.socialism.trotsky!
Hey Doug. Netscape says it can't find it. Was THAT the joke? Well,
too bad, cause this is my one and only chance to tell my Trotsky
joke:
Heavens no. I haven't visited it in ages. I can't remember
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30525] Re: Re: humor
it's more likely that Joanna's browser isn't currently set up to read newsgroups. Mine isn't either.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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From: Doug Henwood [mailto
Title: RE: [PEN-L:30527] RE: Re: Re: humor
I sent the following message:
it's more likely that Joanna's browser isn't currently set up to read newsgroups. Mine isn't either.
this appears in the archive of the listserver.
but the following is what I got from the list in MS Outlook
RE: [PEN-L:30527] RE: Re: Re: humor
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From: Devine, James
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 3:52 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:30531] RE: RE: Re: Re: humor
I sent the following message:
it's more likely that Joanna's browser isn't currently set up to read
Sabri Oncu wrote:
But please do something about it. Most of us are not that young
anymore, you know?
Your mail program _may_ have a command that will increase the font size
of the post you are reading. With Netscape Communicator each time one
hits Alt V F the font increases.
Carrol
you are "one of
them" and not on thier guard, you hear some pretty amazing things.
-Original Message-
From: Carrol Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 11:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:9792] Re: Re: humor
Carrol Cox wrote:
If you trace this legen
I think it is more general than that. I have been in situations, some
dating back 20 years, some a lot more recent, where members of priveleged
groups (rich whites, male physicians, etc.) Told crude anti-black,
anti-semetic, anti-women jokes and if you didn't "go along" by laughing, the
response
Louis Proyect wrote:
Actually, the character who inspired this thread--one Joe Queenan--is a
frequent guest on the Don Imus show, which along with the Howard Stern
show, encapsulates what's wrong with mainstream humor. Unlike the Marx
Brothers, Mark Twain or Jonathan Swift, humor on these shows
four to share the experience.
and my all time fave
How many Zen Buddhists does it take to screw in a
light bulb?
Answer: Two. One to screw in the light bulb and one
NOT to screw in the light bulb.
Barkley Rosser
No. It's four.
the 3rd screws in the
At 01:39 PM 3/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
How many Madisonians does it take to screw in
a light bulb?
my answer is the same, and different, based on political theory:
Three, because one person can't be trusted with all the power.
How many Californians does it take to screw in
a light
How many Teamsters does it take to change a light bulb?
Thirteen. You have a problem with that?
Now you have inspired me:
Q: How many Marxists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None -- The light bulb's own internal contradictions contain the seeds
of its own
revolution.
A: Two - one to screw it in, and a second to hand out leaflets.
Q: How many
Correction. I meant the SAME one
-Original Message-
From: Brown, Martin (NCI)
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:22 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [PEN-L:9755] RE: Re: humor
How many quantum mechanics does it take to screw in the light bulb?
One to screw it in at a probability
How many quantum mechanics does it take to screw in the light bulb?
One to screw it in at a probability of 95% and one to not screw it in at a
probability of 5%.
-Original Message-
From: J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:40 PM
To: [EMAIL
Q: How many neoclassical economists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: It would never get screwed in because the dark room exists and
therefore must be the result of market efficiency and pareto optimality so
there is no reason to screw in a light bulb; i.e. just accept the
At 02:27 PM 3/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
Q: How many neoclassical economists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: It's hard to tell, but one thing we know is that the government can't be
trusted to do so!
or:
A: first we have to prove that the light bulb exists!
Jim Devine [EMAIL
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From: "Brown, Martin (NCI)" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 11:22 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:9755] RE: Re: humor
How many quantum mechanics does it take to screw in the light bulb?
One to screw it in at a probability of 9
How many economists does it take to flog a joke about light bulbs into
oblivion?
Ian
at least it's not a pointless flame-war, though of course the latter would
make screwing in the light bulb unnecessary.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
At 02:27 PM 3/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
Q: How many neoclassical economists
does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: The bulb would not have burned out in the first
place if not for government regulation.
Eric
.
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Postscript:
Q. How many graduate students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. One, but it takes him eight years.
probably the more correct answer is:
Q. How many graduate students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. one graduate student and one
- Original Message -
From: "Jim Devine" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 11:40 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:9763] Re: Re: RE: Re: humor
How many economists does it take to flog a joke about light bulbs into
oblivion?
Ian
at
How many ants does it take to screw in a light
bulb?
Answer: Two, if they can get inside.
Barkley Rosser
- Original Message -
From: "Jim Devine" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:02 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:9752] Re: Re: humor
At 01:
I don't know if there ever will be an answer to Yoshie's question: "Where's
an American conservative
today who writes like Michael Oakeshott?" because it would actually require
such a conservative to have a sense of humor (or irony even), although at
the risk of pen-l ad hominem censure, I
, March 29, 2001 2:27 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:9758] RE: RE: Re: humor
Q: How many neoclassical economists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: It would never get screwed in because the dark room exists and
therefore must be the result of market efficiency and pareto optimality so
there is
Postscript:
Q. How many graduate students does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. One, but it takes him eight years.
Q: How many actors does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: 10.. One to screw in the lightbulb and 9 to stand below and
shout "that should be me up there!"
If you trace this legend back I suspect you will find its origins in the
failure of British feminists to acknowledge how funny forced feeding
was. Many feminists have also been lamentably incapable of seeing how
funny wife beating is.
Carrol
Carrol Cox wrote:
If you trace this legend back I suspect you will find its origins in the
failure of British feminists to acknowledge how funny forced feeding
was. Many feminists have also been lamentably incapable of seeing how
funny wife beating is.
An offlist communication suggests
e to screw it in, and four to talk
about how
great the old bulb was
Barkley Rosser
- Original Message -
From: "Brown, Martin (NCI)"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:27 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:9758] RE: RE: Re: humor
Q: H
Max Sawicky wrote:
I've gotten worse from HCKL in the past and didn't complain, but I'm not
gonna bother him any more; he takes the fun out of it.
Give an example or evidence what you got from me in the past that justifies your
making fun of my name.
BTW, if you had pronounced my name LIU
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