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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke
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To: Barney who wrote (22421)2/6/2002 4:14:46 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.  Read Replies (1) of 62567
 
..Old telephone books make ideal personal address books. Simply cross out the names and addresses of people you don't know.

Reminds me of a funny thing that happened at my house during
a get together in the early 80's. My friends and I went through
a phase where we'd get wasted and play Scrabble all night. It
was around the same time everyone else was playing Trivial Pursuit.
Any how one night while I was sitting out a game with a few
friends a few other friends started a game with some new rules.
Instead of no proper nouns ONLY proper nouns and instead of 7
tiles, each player got 8. Acceptable proper nouns included
famous last names and people we knew. After about a 1/2
hour a major argument broke about a name. I forget what the
name was but one person swore they had a classmate in college
with the name and someone else said "No way!". Since it was
my house I was chosen to settle the dispute. I thought about
it for a few seconds then reached over to a shelf a few feet
from where the game was being played and handed the participants
a phone book. The name wasn't in it. They continued to use
the phone book the way normal people use a dictionary when
playing Scrabble. I'm sure most of you won't find this that
funny but anyone who went through a similar phase will hopefully
enjoy it.
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