From nv91-asa@nada.kth.se Fri Jan 21 00:11:31 1997
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From: Kurt Jorgen Roar Svendsen <kurtz@cia.com.au>
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Subject: [velcro]: HUMOUR: (?) The ""Joke" Joke" Joke
To: velcro@desire.apana.org.au (The Velcran Underground)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 00:42:01 +1100 (EST)
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dear  peoples

	Not much has been escaping from the labs
	on this side of the pacific for quite a
	while, I've given up on travelogs since to
	do it any justice it would be a seven day
	contnuous soap opera.

	None the less there are afew things that can be
	meaningfully communicated in 25 words or less:

	This "joke" joke is spoilt for you, since this
	is the make file for it, none the less deftly
	delivered, this joke can have quite an impact,
	particularly for those that are slow to catch
	on & it has a particular piquancy for those in
	a psychdelified state.

	it goes something like this:

	you walk up to someone & say:

	"Have you heard the recursive delayed
	 punchline joke?"

	 & if they haven't, then you smile ambiguously
	 with a slight tilt to the head & then to imprint
	 the joke a little deeper:

	 "Are you sure you haven't heard the recursive
	  delayed punchline joke?"

	& if they insist that they have not then smile
	& as you are walking away say: "you will..."

	Now if you are sure the person wouldn't know
	what recursive means then you can drop it, but
	only if you have to.

	Well that is the bare bones of the joke make file,
	adjust to suit. Formally speaking the canonical
	kernel form of the joke is:

	"Have you heard the recursive delayed
	 punchline joke?"

	 Naturally the longer the listener takes to
	 actually "get" the joke, the greater the impact
	 of the punchline is, for simultaneously as they
	 get or "hear" the joke they should realise that
	 they are in fact both the joke, the punchline,
	 the joke teller & joke hearer.

	 If you relay this joke to someone in a highly
	 editable space, just make sure you can break them
	 out of any loop that they may get in.

	 This is an eco-viable, yin yang econometrically
	 sound joke, for the pleasure & pain of getting
	 the joke are in equal measure. It gives a whole
	 new spin on the concept of "delayed gratification".

	 It have thought long & hard on this & the morality
	 of releasing it out of the labs & the action does
	 not violate my moral compass of:

	 "do unto others as you would others do unto you" &
	 "if you want to do something to an other, then do
	  it to your self first & see how it fits"

	Well I might have remembered the joke from the
	encrypted akashic repository of dubious humour,
	but even I took a while to get it & survived.

	I leave it in your capable hands. ;')

	& new year's greetings!


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