To: funny@clarinet.com
Subject: A gem from the life of George Bernard Shaw
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Here's brilliant example of Shavian wit.  It comes from `SHAW,'
by C.E.M. Joad, (1949) London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., p.74

One speech which I heard him deliver was subjected to continual
interruption by a man who raucously shouted his irrelevant and
usually unintelligible remarks from the gallery.  After this had
been going on for some time, Shaw paused, looked benignly in the
direction of the interrupter and said with an air of great
blandness: "If the gentleman in the gallery will forgive me for
interrupting him, I should like to point out..."

- & (anand)

From funny-request-daemon@clarinet.com Sun Aug 16 11:25:18 1992
To: A.Raman@massey.ac.nz
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Subject: Re: A gem from the life of George Bernard Shaw
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 16:10:15 PDT

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From funny-request@clarinet.com Tue Oct  6 08:01:08 1992
From: Funny Guy 
To: A.Raman@massey.ac.nz
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Subject: Re: A gem from the life of George Bernard Shaw
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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 12:59:06 PDT

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I have accepted your joke for rec.humor.funny.   This means that
it will be queued, and unless it's a topical "rush" joke, it will show
up in the group in a few weeks.   The joke may also show up on other
networks, like GEnie, and may appear in this year's rec.humor.funny
annual jokebook.

Thanks!



Copyright © 1992 Anand Venkataraman