David,
> far better 'textured', and incidentally much
more fun to read, rather than a
> brute transcript of an oral version.
'Composition' has come into play, but
> over a basis that is both time-worn and
fundamentally simple.
> But you can still see the punch-line coming a
mile off.
Actually, even despite the written form I didn't
see it coming and it cracked me up.
But I bet that's because I never got serious
enough about Burns - and you'd have to to be able
to speak this one.
Nicholas
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Hayden" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 6:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Apologies If This Joke Has Made The
Rounds
>
>
> > "This is the Serious Burns
> > >Unit."
> > >
> > Took me a minute but I finally got it. I dig
jokes like this, remind me
> of
> > the punchlines on Mr. Peabody's Improbable
Histories.
> >
> > More Poetic jokes!
> >
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