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Local Authors => Dan Wells => Topic started by: Talyn on May 28, 2010, 06:12:24 AM
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I have to share this.
My mother tells me this joke yesterday, and calls it engineering humor. I thought it was hilarious. And then last night I bought Serial Killer (finally). So today I'm reading along and lo and behold Margaret tells THE SAME JOKE. No lie.
To be specific, the set-up was slightly different (the way mom told it, the chief had three wives as opposed to three daughters) but all the elements were there, and the punchline was the same. I laughed out loud when I read it. Is that not completely awesome?
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The real question is how long it took to tell the joke. I used a greatly abridged version in the book, but I've heard presentations of the hippopotamus joke that can last 30 minutes or more.
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I'd like to see that. Mom's version was even shorter than yours, although she'd only just heard it herself, so she probably butchered it in the delivery :p