Good ones, Marcus, Hal, and Roger! I s'pose I'll hafta start memorizing
jokes now.
By the way, grandbaby Marcus, I thought you had the cleverest of the
responses to Dom's 40-page software/hardware story: you simply requested a
copy of it. HA! Then I found out you really meant you wanted a copy. Lor'
have Mercy!
So, what kinda glass do U design, Marcus, my g'baby?
Your devoted somethingorother,
GrammaGooseBackFromHarlem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcus Bales" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 6:47 AM
Subject: Re: joke
> The peculiar genius of lightbulb jokes seems to me to be the tongue-in-
> cheek undermining of the stereotype each joke uses to make a joke in
> the first place. I don't know how it came about that this level of irony
> became implicit in the form, but it seems to be the only joke form around
> that is allowed to use what would be otherwise offensive stereotypes.
>
> How many Jewish mothers does it take to change a lightbulb?
> None: "I'll just sit here, alone, in the dark ..."
>
> Many, though, are predicated upon professions, like the hardware
> engineer/software problem one, not on mere ethnicity, though, and I
> think it is the propensity for skewering the attitudes of volitional
> occupations, as well as non-volitional groups, that lets this joke form,
> and its tellers, get away with stereotyping that in another form would be
> taken as offensive.
>
> How many psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb?
> One: but the lightbulb has got to really want to change.
>
> How many union electricians does it take to change a lightbulb.
> Seventeen. You gotta problem wit' dat?
>
> Marcus
>
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>
> On 30 Jul 2005 at 0:29, Halvard Johnson wrote:
>
>> Ever hear the California version?
>>
>> Q: How many Californians . . .
>>
>> A: Seventeen. One to change the bulb and sixteen to
>> share the experience.
>>
>> Hal
>>
>> On Jul 30, 2005, at 12:20 AM, Roger Collett wrote:
>>
>> > Looking back, a long way back, the version I first heard was:
>> >
>> > Q: How many Irishmen does it take to change a light bulb?
>> > A: 101, one to hold the bulb and a hundred to turn the house.
>> >
>> > Btw, when I was in Saudi Arabia the common British jokes about the
>> > Irish seemed to be extant as Saudi jokes about the Yemenis (the
>> > Arabian equivalent of navvies who did most of the construction
>> > labouring)
>> >
>> > Roger Collett
>> > Arrowhead Press
>> > http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
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>> > --------
>> > "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
>> > Jules de Gaultier
>> >
>> >
>> Hal Serving the tristate area.
>>
>> Halvard Johnson
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>> website: http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard
>> blog: http://entropyandme.blogspot.com/
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