shady humor practices

[jc at trillian.mit.edu (John Chambers)]

linuxguy at ici.net writes:
| > (Ideaological trivia test question: Name some more Marxist ideas that
| > are now considered correct in the Capitalist world.  No cheating now;
| > try answering without rereading your Marx.  Stay on topic  by  giving
| > example in the computer industry. Turn in your answers by Friday. ;-)
|
| If I'm not mistaken, it is Karl's genius we have to thank for all those
| lovely "knock knock" jokes.  Sure, back then they all started with
| "knock knock... who's there... the police".  Now, every 4 year old in
| America torments his parents relentlessly with "orange you glad I didn't
| say banana?".
|
| Did he start the "pull my finger" trend too?

Dunno about that, but I did read something years  ago  claiming  that
Karl  was  a distant relative of the Marx brothers.  I don't remember
the relationship, however.  Of course, men who write as seriously  as
he did are generally not allowed to have a sense of humor.

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