LIFE OF A JOKE
Birth: A Freshman thinks it up and laughs out loud in chapel.
Age 5 minutes: The Freshman tell it toa Junior who says it’s pretty good, but he’s heard it before.
Age I day: Flumor editors use it as their own.
Age 2 days: Editor thinks it 1s terrible.
Age 10 days: Editor has to fill in space in a magazine, so the joke is printed.
Age 1 month: Thirteen other school magazines reprint it.
Age 3 years: Monitors reprint it in “Lighter Vein.”
Age 10 years: Seventy-nine radio comedians discover it simultaneously and tell it, accompanied by howls of mirth from the orchestra ($500 a howl).
Age 100 years: Teachers start telling it in class.
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