This is the one-liner file annual, a collection of the various short jokes, puns and one liners that didn't excite me enough to be given a posting of their own, but yet are still worth reading. Now an apology -- I let this file sit for quite some time, and when I came to look at it today, the middle of it was garbage -- blocks from other files. Sadly it is this way on the backups, too. So it is far shorter than it should be. If you submitted something, and got a note that it would go in the oneliner file, and it isn't here (with your name or somebody else's -- don't just grep for your name, I removed duplicates) you can send it again with a note that it's for the oneliner file. ------------------------------------ From: bevans%gauss.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu (Mathemagician) Subject: Neutron Bomb II Paraphrased from "Global Village News" from Nickelodeon: The Government just announced today the creation of the Neutron Bomb II. Similar to the Neutron Bomb, the Neutron Bomb II not only kills people and leaves buildings standing, but also does a little light housekeeping. ------------------------------------ From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) Subject: Infant sexuality Heard on WEEI Boston today: "[A recent survey finds that] 15-to-19-year-olds now have fewer sexual partners than they did ten years ago." And you thought they were playing doctors and nurses. ------------------------------------ From: an@??.UUCP That money talks, I'll not deny. I heard it once. It said "good-bye". ------------------------------------ From: koreth@ucscb.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm) Subject: So how come they all have oily hair? How did the computer scientist die in the shower? He read the directions on the shampoo: Lather. Rinse. Repeat. ------------------------------------ From: CHRONISTER@sysa.rutgers.edu (Ben Chronister) Subject: College College is a fountain of Knowledge... and the students are there to drink. ------------------------------------ From: milun@cs.buffalo.edu (Davin Milun) Subject: An apple a day Think of how much fun you could have with the doctor's wife and a bucket of apples. ------------------------------------ From: jkw%beta@lanl.gov (Jay Wooten) Subject: Merger Did you hear about the merger between Honeywell and Fairchild ? The new company will be known as: Fairwell Honeychild ------------------------------------ From: postpischil@alien.enet.dec.com (Eric) Subject: Product advertising claim [This is original.] There is a CD out entitled "The Worst of Jefferson Airplane". If you buy this, take it home, play it, and enjoy it, should you take it back and demand a refund? ------------------------------------ From: george@sbcs.sunysb.edu Subject: Math/Light-bulb joke (original) Q: How many ancient Greek mathematicians does it take to replace a light-bulb? A: Infinitely many! The first does half the job, the next a quarter, the third does one-eighth etc. ------------------------------------ From: bwhite@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Bill White) Subject: Mathematics, original (as far as I know!) Q: What's a polar bear? A: A rectangular bear after a coordinate transform. ------------------------------------ From: Anurag.Acharya@natasha.mach.cs.cmu.edu Subject: spring break Dumb Q: When the heck is Spring break ? Dumb A: Spring break is the time of the year when half the nation's coeds are in two pieces. ------------------------------------ From: root@agent99.dell.com (Ron McDowell) Subject: obfuscated manual entry From the X-windows xwud(1) man-page... This is a crude version of a more advanced utility that has never been written. ------------------------------------ From: hiebeler@turing.cs.rpi.edu (Dave Hiebeler) Subject: cafeteria cows Jeff Marder told this one on Fox's "Comic Strip Live", 3/10/90: When a cow laughs, does milk come out of its nose? ------------------------------------ From: SCOTT@ithaca.UUCP Subject: What do you have if? "What do you have if you have a moth ball in one hand and a moth ball in the other hand?" "One HELL of a moth!!" ------------------------------------ From: georgem@microso.UUCP (George MOORE) Subject: The Master of Macabre "Some people say that I must be a horrible person, but that's not true. I have the heart of a young boy -- in a jar on my desk." -- Stephen King, 3/8/90 ------------------------------------ From: icsu7039@nero.cs.montana.edu (Spannring) Subject: marriage The tri stages of sex in marriage- 1) Tri-weekly 2) Try-weekly 3) Try-weakly ------------------------------------ From: UD009831@vm1.nodak.edu (Steve Penoncello) Subject: Medical survey results Heard on Leno's monologue a few weeks ago: The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot. ------------------------------------ From: GREG@pomona.claremont.edu (Tigger) Subject: New VAX/VMS command Several people on the BITNET RELAY system one night decided that Digital needs to add a new command to VAX/VMS: $ SET TIME/DAY=FRIDAY/DATE=BLONDE ------------------------------------ From: 392904634@uwplatt.edu Subject: fat women What do you call a 300 pound woman in Minnesota? Anemic. ------------------------------------ From: masticol@cs.rutgers.edu (Steve) Subject: How to achieve peace in our time "If people ate what they killed, there would be NO MORE WARS!" ------------------------------------ From: davidp@labtam.oz.au (David Purdue) Subject: The wonders of modern technology! Have you seen the latest Japanese camera? Apparently it is so fast it can photograph an American with his mouth shut! ------------------------------------ From: RICH@suhep.phy.syr.edu (Richard S. Holmes) Subject: Laws of motion, revised (#1) Reichel's Law: A body on vacation tends to remain on vacation unless acted upon by an outside force. (Carol Reichel) ------------------------------------ From: trb@ima.ima.isc.com (Andrew Tannenbaum) Subject: more IBM bashing Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302 IBM: It may be slow, but it's hard to use. ------------------------------------ From: jtk@mordor.s1.gov (Jordan Kare) Subject: Making a Killing (Original) The price of political asassinations in Eastern Europe has dropped by a factor of two in recent weeks. It seems the KGB is going out of business, so they're having a liquidation sale. ------------------------------------ From: chuck%bose (Chuck Cox) Subject: brown-nose vs. shithead Heard during Will Durst's routine at Catch a Rising Star... What's the difference between a brown-noser and a shithead? Depth perception. ------------------------------------ From: larry@birdsong.uucp (Lawrence T. Hardiman) Subject: Movie Ratings Organization: Birdsong -- A Private System Q: What does the new movie rating "NC-17" stand for? A: Not in Cincinati or within 17 miles thereof. ------------------------------------ From: FIN13@msu.UUCP (Mary.Nelson) Subject: work (lack of) I clipped this Frank and Ernest comic out of the paper about a year ago: Ernest asks Frank how long he has been working for the company. "Ever since they threatened to fire me," Frnak replied. ------------------------------------ From: dunc@eecg.toronto.edu (Duncan Elliott) Subject: The doctoral candidate's creed ... Death before dissertation. ------------------------------------ From: harry@uunet.uu.net Subject: Signature Hits the point "The sendmail configuration file is one of those files that looks like someone beat their head on the keyboard. After working with it... I can see why!" -- Harry Skelton (harry@usrgrp) ------------------------------------ From: emery@cs.utexas.edu (Emery Berger) Subject: Volkswagen headache Q. What do you call it when someone rubs a Volkswagen van on your head? A. A Fahrvergnoogie. ------------------------------------ From: C3S@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Mike Scullin) Q: How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: None. The Universe spins the bulb, and the Zen master merely stays out of the way. ------------------------------------ From: fs@uwasa.fi (Filip Sawicki LAKE) Subject: Saloon I A skeleton in the saloon: "One beer and one towel, please !" ------------------------------------ From: cagney@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Cagney - aka Noid) Subject: Definition of sloppy sloppy: /'slopi/, a) adj, -pier, -piest, 1. muddy, slushy or very wet. 2. week, silly or maudlin. 3. loose, careless or slovenly. b) noun, colloq, -s, student living of parents, pre-yuppie stage. ---- It's much more descriptive than YUPPY, DINKY et.al. [part of the definition is lifted from `The Macquarie'] ------------------------------------ From: MA8081@primea.dundee.ac.uk (Dave Elsworth) Subject: Defintions Definition:- Spoonerism: Having wrubble with your turds. ------------------------------------ From: sayah_k@unicom.UUCP (KIANUSCH... Yes, Kianusch himself !!!) Subject: Lifestyle Organization: Science Computer Center, Marin Community College, Kentfield CA Make WAR not SEX, it's safer! ------------------------------------ From: dave@lsuc.on.ca (David Sherman) Subject: cut here (from a recent Usenet posting) --------- if you cut here, you'll probably destroy your monitor ---------- (source code appeared next) ------------------------------------ From: fradkin@cz6.ics.uci.edu (Jim Fradkin) Subject: animals in pantyhose Q: How many animals can you find inside a lady's pantyhose? A: Fourteen. Ten little piggies, two calves, a beaver, and a dead fish you never can seem to find! ------------------------------------ From: ark@research.att.com Subject: answering machine message [original] Now I lay me down to sleep; Leave a message at the beep. If I die before I wake, Remember to erase the tape. ------------------------------------ From: greg@dekalb.UUCP (Greg Philmon) Subject: Radio joke Recently on an Atlanta radio station, they were playing one of their "mock commercials" they dream up. The slogan was: "The Stealth Condom - they'll never see you coming." (From March 11, long before a company decided to make these and got sued by Northrup) ------------------------------------ From: friedl@mtndew.UUCP (Steve Friedl) Subject: Oddball mathematical proof [ From "On the Nature of Mathematical Proofs", Joel Cohen ] Theorem: Every horse has an infinite number of legs Horses have an even number of legs. Behind they have two legs, and in front they have fore legs. This makes six legs, which is certainly an odd number of legs for a horse. The only number that is both odd and even is infinity. Therefore, horses have an infinite number of legs. ------------------------------------ From: sullivan@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu Subject: Robotic life A cartoon in Thrust magazine by Teddy Harvia: The scene depicts two robots. One robot is lying supine on a couch and the second robot is sitting on a chair facing the couch. The second robot is grasping a notebook and pencil and is saying, "When did you first realize you hated your manufacturer?". ------------------------------------ From: harlan@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Pete Harlan) Subject: Another Fast Woman Heard at a campus comedy competition: I'm not saying my sister was a loose girl in high school, but they put her picture in the yearbook sideways... ------------------------------------ From: dre@myrias.UUCP (Duane Eitzen) Subject: An excerpt from Tehran University catalogue: ENGL 323: English Literature This course will concentrate on critical analysis of various works from Britain, Canada and the United States. Knowledge of the English language is not required but experience with plastic explosives is recommended. This course is not open to students who have martered themselves in previous offerings from this department.
(From the "Rest" of RHF)