[Ads-l] the Good News Bad News joke routine

[Geoffrey Nathan]

There’s a variant that is probably somewhat younger that it might be interesting to explore, although I’m not sure how to do it. One exemplar is as follows:

The good thing about digital cameras is that you can take thousands of pictures without having to worry about running out of film
The bad thing about digital cameras is that you can take thousands of pictures….

…. you get the idea.

Geoff

Geoffrey S. Nathan
WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/
geoffnathan at wayne.edu

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many thanks to Jon Lighter and Stephen Goranson for their 1936 and (!!) 187=
1 cites, which i'll add to my blog posting on the Good News Bad News routin=
e.


arnold

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