Have you ever invented a new dish?
"Yeff" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 14:10:12 -0700 (PDT), Tommy Joe wrote:
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>> That covers it. In standup comedy there are more arguments of this
>> regard than just about anything I've yet encountered. Nobody has a
>> brand new idea, but they can have a fresh and original and
>> entertaining way of bringing themselves to it.
>
> Back in the early 90s, during my first deployment to Saudi Arabia, once
> we landed at Riyadh Air Base our duffel bags were taken off the C-130 on
> pallets and set on the ground. We were all told to search through them
> for our own.
>
> It's somewhere around 5:30am in the morning after a long flight from the
> US and we're all pretty beat up. I feel like I've looked at the same
> duffel bags over and over when I decide to yell out, "Mine is the green
> one!" In our tired state everyone thought the weak joke was pretty
> funny.
>
> Years later I'm in a doctors office flipping through a Readers Digest
> and come to "Humor in Uniform". There is my very joke, under the very
> same circumstances, told from the perspective of someone else. I'm sure
> they didn't steal the joke from me.
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