From uhog.mit.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!looking!funny-request Fri, 12 Jan 96 12:20:21 EST Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Organization: IAEA From: barton@nepo1.iaea.or.at (Jerry Barton) Subject: Snow blows, schools close Keywords: topical, smirk, Latin Approved: funny-request@clari.net Path: uhog.mit.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!looking!funny-request Message-ID: Date: Fri, 12 Jan 96 12:20:21 EST Lines: 36 Hardly original with me, but I'm sure the copyright expired decades ago... There must be at least one lone Latin scholar left on the East Coast, (Perhaps at Yale Divinity School?) who, during this week's snow storm, couldn't take the train to school and muttered.. "Sick transport, glorious Monday!" -- Selected by Jim Griffith. MAIL your joke to funny@clari.net. If you mail to original@clari.net, it makes sure that your joke is tagged as your original work, and thus eligible for the RHF comedy awards. Always attribute the source of a joke, whether it's you, or somebody else. Administrative note: The recent joke "The info Highway..." describing a real-life highway system modeled on the Internet originally appeared in the com-priv mailing list (titled "A highway with teeth", written by Russell Nelson, nelson@crynwr.com). My apologies to him for the lack of attribution. I will yet again ask people to *please* accurately attribute their submissions. It goes beyond just what you send to r.h.f. When you forward an article from r.h.f. or any other source to friends or mailing lists, trim out header garbage, but keep the attribution information! It is unfair to the author to fail to attribute a work you obviously value enough to show to friends. The recent joke "Turnabout is fair play" about an alleged incident at a Cambridge exam is an urban legend, which has been reported to have taken place at several different universities. That kind of attribution is unimportant, because it is an urban legend (and impossible to accurately attribute). This is, after all, a humor newsgroup, and it is unreasonable to take seriously any claims that "this is a true story" or "this actually happened", since, in most cases, it didn't.