Thanks. I hope you won't be offended by what I say next, but
sometimes people zip in here with things, and then disappear. I
scanned the file using a major commercially marketed virus program,
and it seems fine, thought I would mention this in case anyone else
is interested. The recording is about a minute and a half and rather
interesting and I suppose a very good point. Certainly there is a lot
to be said for presence, for likeability, identification on some
level, and just being funny. Jack Benny could make people laugh
saying "Well", but I noticed that when Larry Hagman would say the
same word on "Dallas", people did not laugh . . .

There is a very old joke about this guy being invited by a friend to
a joketellers convention. Everybody at the convention that had been
there before new all the jokes, you didn't really need to retell the
joke, you could just say the number. One guy gets up and says "272"
and everybody is just rolling in the aisles. A woman gets up and
says "932" and everybody is just laughing so hard tears are coming
out of their eyes. Then a guy gets up and says "815" and the room is
silent and people are just kind of looking around. The new guy says
to his friend, "How come everybody laughed when the guy said '272'
and when the woman said '932', but not when the third guy
said '815' . . ." and his friend says, "Well, but he didn't tell it
very well . . ."


I did notice Woody Allen said "floor" with two syllables. I have
noticed that some New Yorkers also say "beer" with two syllables.
People are interesting.

--- In thewoodyallenadorers@yahoogroups.com, Tony Ferguson
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