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Bruce Anderson wrote on 061998: > I read some of this humor I get and for the life of me I can't figure out fi > they're funny or not by just reading them. Used to be, the humor in most > jokes was the way the thee joke was told. Now no one actually tells a > joke anymore. If we'd just ask Johnny Carson, Jay Leno or any standup comic about the written joke vs the orally delivered joke, probably each one would relate to Bruce's dilemma. I can think of many times when I heard a great joke but upon trying to write it down to send to someone or trying to deliver it myself, the joke failed miserably due to my inability to "deliver the message" in the exact same as it was orginally sent. Hopefully, the days of sound bite e-mails are close. Jeanette Fuhr 47/7mos.