Re: Announcement from theEuropean Union

In article <42E98881.8904B16F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
jim.sprigs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> Rabbit wrote:
> >
> > "Jim Spriggs" <jim.sprigs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:42E96826.B3BD6911@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > There is no such thing as _the_ official language of the EU. I think
> > > the official languages are
> >
> > It's a joke, Jim, but not as you know it :-)
>
> It's worse than that. It's a joke as I have known it on many, many
> occasions. Can Wally not be deterred from reposting these things that
> have been cropping up in various newsgroups for years? One of the well
> known requirements for jokes to be funny is that they have not been
> heard ad nauseam. Ok, there are exceptions: the "What time is it,
> Eccles?" sketch from the Goons is funny however many times one hears
> it. But no newsgroup humour is of that quality.

Ah, so you're criterion for deciding if a joke is funny is whether or
not *you* have heard it before. There are other, younger people
subscribed to newsgroups who may be encountering it for the first time.

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