Klarinet Archive - Posting 000040.txt from 2007/04

From: "Paul's Hotmail" <paulstephens1964@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bad joke time
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:21:57 -0400

Well, having just crawled out my cave blinking into the sun i got a real
good belly laugh from these.

Anyway aren't the funniest jokes the ones where you sort of know what is
coming?

Paul Stephens

----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Kantor" <klarinet@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2007 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Bad joke time

> Tim,
>
> I'm far from grumpy - in fact, if jokes are to be told I'm the first one
> volunteering.
>
> The problem is, that EVERY TIME some one sends by email or attempts to
> tell a "musician" joke, all we get are the SAME seventy-five one-liners
> which by now have not only become tiresome, but rather downright annoying.
> The teller, of course thinks we've all been living in caves for the past
> century and have never encountered these before.
>
> Your recent "discoveries" of the latest and funniest are hardly that
>
> Music jokes? I love them and enjoy a great laugh - but please find some
> jokes/stories/puns that are new, witty, or at least written within the
> past decade.
>
> Not a lot to ask for.
>
>
> Glenn Kantor (GBK)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 5:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [kl] Bad joke time
>
>
>> On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:26:04 -0400 Glenn Kantor <klarinet@-----.net>
>> ranted:
>>> Memo: To all would be clarinetist "comedians" who think they've
>>> suddenly
>>> encountered a clever "joke"...
>>>
>>> You haven't.
>>>
>>> These SAME instrumental jokes have been traveling around the internet ad
>>> nauseum and are listed on dozens of web sites.
>>>
>>> Your "discoveries" of witty material is not as revolutionary as you may
>>> think.
>>>
>>> A better, more worthwhile endeavor - find an original one that hasn't
>>> been
>>> traveling the vaudeville circuits for the past 40 years.
>>>
>>> End of rant - Now back to your regularly scheduled program...
>>>
>>> Glenn Kantor (GBK)
>>
>> Oh, come on, Glenn. Nobody said these were new, or original, or
>> revolutionary. If we can't pause for 5 minutes every once in a while
>> and wade through a half a dozen "musician joke" messages without
>> reaching for the grumpy stick, then perhaps we should take our wrinkled
>> old sourpuss faces back to the rocking chairs and yell at the kids
>> playing ball in the street.
>>
>> --
>> Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
>> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>>
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