From news.spc.edu!news.new-york.net!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!fugue.clari.net!funny-request Tue Nov 18 08:30:57 1997 Xref: news.spc.edu rec.humor.funny:7404 Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences From: riesbeck@ils.nwu.edu (Chris Riesbeck) Subject: Cow on track Keywords: smirk Approved: funny-request@clari.net Path: news.spc.edu!news.new-york.net!news-peer.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!fugue.clari.net!funny-request Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Nov 97 19:30:02 EST Lines: 28 The joke about British Rail excuses for train delays reminded me of one I saw in a reprint of an old Moon Mullins comic strip. A passenger train is creeping along, painfully slowly. Finally, it creaks to a complete halt. A passenger sees a conductor walking by outside. "What's going on?" she yells out the window. "Cow on the track!" replies the conductor. Ten minutes later, the train resumes its slow pace. Within five minutes, however, it stops again. The woman sees the same conductor walking by again. She leans out the window and yells, "What happened? Did we catch up with the cow again?" -- Selected by Jim Griffith. MAIL your joke to funny@clari.net. Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. Please don't send us requests of the form, "could you please send me the joke about XXX?" We don't act as a joke server but the web pages at http://comedy.clari.net/rhf/ will let you search for jokes in our archives.