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Subject: Ru Date: Thu Jun 20 2024 12:59 pm
From: Gleb Hlebov To: Alexander Koryagin

Hi Alexander,

Fri 14 Jun 2024 at 13:59, you wrote to Anton Shepelev:

 AK>>> "He told me an anecdote, and I didn't laugh."
 AS>> An anecdote is a personal and unverified story. The word you
 AS>> want is  `joke'.
 AK> Jokes IMHO are very short. Long jokes are bad joke;
 AK> -----Beginning of the citation-----
 AK> Why do French people eat snails?
 AK> They don't like fast food.
 AK> ----- The end of the citation -----
 AK> Anecdotes are rather short humorous stories

Can you tell if it's a joke or anecdote? ;-)
(Excuse my possibly lame "adaptation")

     << E. Kopelyan's voiceover:

       "Stierlitz gave it a thought.
        It was good.
        So he gave it a second thought". >>


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