Article 2459 of rec.humor.funny: Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Organization: Remove all your clothes to reply From: surfbaud@waverider.co.uk (Dave Hemming) Subject: MAKE CLUBS FAST Keywords: smirk Approved: funny-request@clari.net Message-ID: Date: Sun, 29 Mar 98 19:30:03 EST Lines: 52 Path: news1.meer.net!nntp2.ba.best.com!news1.best.com!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!newsfeed.wli.net!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.pbi.net!fugue.clari.net!funny-request Recent evidence has come to light that suggests that pyramid style chain letters may have pre-dated Dave Rhodes by a considerable margin. Palaentologists recently deciphered the following, painted on a cave wall on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. MAKE SPIKY CLUBS FAST!!! Hello, not-tribe-member. Urk name Urk. Many moons ago, Urk in bad way. Urk kicked out of cave by Thag. Thag bigger than Urk, Thag take Urk spiky club, Urka (Urk wo-man). Urk not able kill deer, must eat leaves, berries. Urk flee from wolves. Today, Urk big chief. Urk have best cave, many wives, many spiky clubs. Urk tell how. WHAT DO: make one spiky club and take to cave places below. Add own cave place to bottom of list, take cave place off top. Put new message on walls many caves. Wait. Many clubs soon come! This not crime! Urk ask shaman, gods say okay. HERE LIST: 1) Urk First cave Olduvai Gorge few) Thag (not that Thag, other Thag) old dead tree by laked shaped like mammoth few) Og big rock with overhang near pig game trail Many) Zog river caves where river meet big water Urk hope not-tribe-member do what Urk say do. That only way it work. (c) Dave Hemming 1998. Circulate how you please, but keep my name on it. -- 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. The best of old postings from RHF are now also available in the new group rec.humor.funny.reruns. Unless you've been a loyal reader since '87 you may want to subscribe to that too, since RHF does only new material. The archives are also at http://comedy.clari.net/rhf This joke's link: http://comedy.clari.net/rhf/jokes/98/Mar/makeclubs.html