>Kevin gets the joke just fine. But he turns the joke back on the joker by playing the "i don't get it game..".... It worked again like a charm....LOL
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>HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! I love playing the Edith Bunker role.
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>Actually, I'm surprised Bonnie didn't realize it...she normally knows me pretty well :)
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>JB and I used to work in the same office where a woman would routinely send out jokes. I'd always reply with an "I don't get it"....and that would trigger a set of back-and-forths. The woman never realized I was just kidding around, but the rest of the email recipients thought my responses were funnier than the original joke.
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>Ah, the good old days...JB and KG in the same office...the place we worked for sucked, but we had good times.

I got it. Its an old tactic (but a reasonable one)