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

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Sun Jul 7 16:30:30 UTC 2019



> On Jul 7, 2019, at 8:55 AM, Geoffrey Nathan <geoffnathan at WAYNE.EDU> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Thanks, Geoff.  Added as a comment on my blog.

Arnold


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