Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:01:36 -0500
From: Tom Kysilko
Subject: Re: Linguistic humor (fwd)

I've passed the list around a bit and heard back as follows. The people in
question are statisticians.

>Tom --
>
>I forwarded your list to my former boss at the U of M, who responded (in
>less than 1 minute, I swear) with the attached.
>
>Brendan has added that if a jockey lost his job s/he would be
>destabilized.
>
>Kate
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Dear KC,
>
> Thanx ... I guess salesmen will be discounted? barbers departed?
> poll-takers decapitated? balloonists deflated? eggs delayed?
> appointees disappointed? mathematicians disintegrated?
>
> J.E.C.



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