punchline

[Ivan A Derzhanski <cbmvax!uunet!COGSCI.ED.AC.UK!iad>]

>  Date:     Thu, 2 Apr 1992 06:06:30 LCL
>  Reply-To: Undetermined origin c/o Postmaster <POSTMASTER@EARN.CUVMA>

The postal system is obviously having a rough ride.

>  > >  <...> I kept saying "where's the punchline". Um... sorry about that.
>
>  Well, "he cut the tail off" (which took me a minute to see, with me getting
>  confused by the nesting)... yeah, and? I *think* it was the failure to set
>  up any suspense, which I suspect is a cultural thing.

Evidence that the typical Gabrovoian is a miser: He cuts off the tail
of his cat => the cat becomes shorter => it takes less time for it to
come in or go out => the inside of the room loses less heat while it
does so.  Sure, there is more than one way to skin a... er, to put
this into Lojban.  There is a similar story about a Scotsman goi ko'a
noi terve'u lo gekrdaksxundo goi ko'u tedu'a leko'a panzi ki'u lenu
rori ka'e kansa satre ko'u kei gi'e ctuca ko'u lezu'o ti'ertu'e cadzu
tezu'e leka ko'u sutra pagre le vorme seri'a lenu le kumfa nenri ke
glare vacri na festi

>  (I am still recovering from Korean jokes in Esperanto).

Serves you right for being an Esperantist.  :-)  Too bad; I don't
intend to stop posting Bulgarian jokes in Lojban.

Ivan