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               *** A Story by Dr. Graper ***
 
         8/21/79   5:13 pm     lynch / udperuse / unidel
jokes / unidel  8/17/79  6:24 pm  graper / udperuse / unidel
Dear Friends:
 
        Well, this is a joke.  I usually don't tell them,
but looking at the "Play-Dough" joke ahead of this I thought
I would be bold and, you know, it can't be anything but an
improvement.    Here goes. . .
 
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               *** A Story by Dr. Graper ***
 
         8/21/79   5:14 pm     lynch / udperuse / unidel
        Oscar Wilde was a writer who had, well, strange
tastes.  He was a pederast, i.e. a person who really digs 
children.  Oscar dug little boys, to be exact.
        He was a great writer and all and quite respected by
the literary community, but don't think his friends tol-
erated his behavior. They discouraged it a great deal.
        So one night, Oscar and his friends were having 
dinner in a posh London joint when Oscar stood up and told
his fellows that he had decided to lay off the little boys.
He's going to "turn over a new leaf," he says, and everybody
is really happy.
        Well, Oscar gets lots of toasts and smiles and he
excuses himself to go to the bathroom.  A few skeptical 
friends see this and decide to see if he's really going.
Sure enough, they find him in a cloakroom fumbling with the
pants of one of the hotel's pageboys.
        "Oh Oscar, we thought you were going to turn over a
new leaf!" his friends whined.
        Oscar smiled and said, "I will!  Just as soon as I
get to the bottom of this page!"