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  "thread": {
    "id": 4329,
    "subject": "Abo's Jumbo Jokebook",
    "messages": 4,
    "voices": 4,
    "first": "2005-01-19T10:52:55+00:00",
    "last": "2005-01-19T17:05:19+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<20050119185253.96744.qmail@web25706.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Jim Raylor",
        "address": "rjraylor at yahoo.co.uk"
      },
      "date": "2005-01-19T10:52:55+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Abo's Jumbo Jokebook",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "How do you hide an elephant?\nIn plain sight you can hide it from the blind.\n\nHow do you know if there is an elephant in your\nfridge?\nWatch for the tracks in the butter dish.\n\nHow do elephants descend from trees?\nThey sit on a leaf and wait until autumn\n\nHow do elephants disguise themselves?\nThey wear dark glasses.\n\nWhat did Tarzan say when he saw a herd of elephants\ncoming over the hill?\nHere come the walking towers... No... it is a herd of\nelephants with soldiers on their backs.\n\nWhat did Tarzan say when he saw a herd of elephants\nwearing sunglasses with soldiers on their backs coming\nover the hill?\nNo... I was right the first time.. it is just walking\ntowers\n\nHow do you get 2 Whales in a mini?\nDown the M4... Or did you say Scotland or Ireland?\n\nHow do you get 4 whales in a mini?\nTwo in the front two in the back.\n\nWhy do the elephants have big ears?\nNoddy won't pay the ransom... African or Ascian?\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t"
        }
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<01d401c4fe5c$3d9f8f90$4c1e4b0a@vcorp.ad.vrsn.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "James Wynn",
        "address": "thewynns at earthlink.net"
      },
      "date": "2005-01-19T11:22:42+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Abo's Jumbo Jokebook",
      "in_reply_to": "<20050119185253.96744.qmail@web25706.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>",
      "reply_link": "header",
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          "text": "I take back my previous post.\n\nYou are a troll, and ought to be banned.\n\nWhether you will be or not, I am creating a rule to send your posts directly\nto the Deleted folder.\n\n~ Crush"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<41EED4A2.9060405@gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "maru",
        "address": "marudubshinki at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2005-01-19T13:44:11+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Abo's Jumbo Jokebook",
      "in_reply_to": "<20050119185253.96744.qmail@web25706.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>",
      "reply_link": "header",
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          "text": "I'll confess: I didn't get those last ones. Care to explain a little?\n~Maru"
        },
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          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Jim Raylor wrote:\nHow do you get 2 Whales in a mini?\nDown the M4... Or did you say Scotland or Ireland?\n\nHow do you get 4 whales in a mini?\nTwo in the front two in the back.\n\nWhy do the elephants have big ears?\nNoddy won't pay the ransom... African or Ascian?\n "
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<20050120010515.94586.qmail@web50304.mail.yahoo.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nathan Spears",
        "address": "spearofsolomon at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2005-01-19T17:05:19+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Abo's Jumbo Jokebook",
      "in_reply_to": "<41EED4A2.9060405@gmail.com>",
      "reply_link": "header",
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          "text": "I'll confess: I didn't get those last ones. Care to explain a little?\n~Maru"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Which ones?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "How do you get 2 Whales in a mini?\nDown the M4... Or did you say Scotland or Ireland?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "How do you get to Wales in a mini?"
        },
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          "text": "How do you get 4 whales in a mini?\nTwo in the front two in the back."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
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          "text": "This is a Marx brothers type joke.  It's like \"to get to the other side\" . . . the\npractical answer to a ridiculous question."
        },
        {
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          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Why do the elephants have big ears?\nNoddy won't pay the ransom... African or Ascian?"
        },
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          "text": "I don't get this one either, but what I really don't get is what these jokes have to\ndo with Gene Wolfe.  It's one thing to hear the same arguments about\nsoul/spirit/body fifteen times with different words, but at least it's on topic.\n\n\n\t\t"
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