Subject: Jokes was Bootlegger

From: Pierre Abbat <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 00:39:30 -0400

On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, [email-masked] wrote:
>In a message dated 00-06-10 12:16:00 EDT, aulun writes:
>
><< I wonder if jokes can be told in Lojban (very often ambiguity is
> essential for them - try to *explain* it and it's over...) or 
> irony can be conveyed. >>
>
>Yes. We have had some specimens lately (I can't remember the references, 
>though). But no one is really good at it yet.

There's a transcript of a cartoon (anyone know where the cartoon is?) with a
joke based on an ambiguous tanru. Look for "malskami" and you'll find it.

As to my "spati temci" joke, that's an English pun in translation.

phma