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| − | Get [[Burbee]] to tell it to you sometime. "It was a story I began telling in 1942 even before I got into [[fandom]]", says [[Burbee|Burb]]. "When I got into the Army in '45 I got famous for it and had to tell it several times a day, often by request of the Brass: '...Is there a fellow named -- [[Burbee]] -- in this group?' 'Yes, here I am.' 'Fine. I understand you have a story about a watermelon. Would you tell it before we begin our lecture on double-action booby-traps?' I was sort of obsessed by it and told it hundreds of times. I've told it on [[fannish]] tape a coupla times, too. And before that, on wire." Don't confuse this with [[Martin Alger]]'s Watermelon Joke which concerns a fellow he knew in the Army who preferred watermelons to gals. | + | Get [[Burbee]] to tell it to you sometime. "It was a story I began telling in 1942 even before I got into [[fandom]]", says [[Burbee|Burb]]. "When I got into the [[Army]] in '45 I got famous for it and had to tell it several times a day, often by request of the Brass: '...Is there a fellow named -- [[Burbee]] -- in this group?' 'Yes, here I am.' 'Fine. I understand you have a story about a watermelon. Would you tell it before we begin our lecture on double-action booby-traps?' I was sort of obsessed by it and told it hundreds of times. I've told it on [[fannish]] tape a coupla times, too. And before that, on [[wiresponding|wire]]." Don't confuse this with [[Martin Alger]]'s Watermelon Joke which concerns a fellow he knew in the Army who preferred watermelons to gals. |
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Latest revision as of 06:39, 28 November 2020
| From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959 |
| Get Burbee to tell it to you sometime. "It was a story I began telling in 1942 even before I got into fandom", says Burb. "When I got into the Army in '45 I got famous for it and had to tell it several times a day, often by request of the Brass: '...Is there a fellow named -- Burbee -- in this group?' 'Yes, here I am.' 'Fine. I understand you have a story about a watermelon. Would you tell it before we begin our lecture on double-action booby-traps?' I was sort of obsessed by it and told it hundreds of times. I've told it on fannish tape a coupla times, too. And before that, on wire." Don't confuse this with Martin Alger's Watermelon Joke which concerns a fellow he knew in the Army who preferred watermelons to gals. |
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