Back in the 80s, when I was a student in the UK, there were a lot of jokes going around JANet. Many of these were Oxford/Cambridge related. I guess I must have taken a copy before leaving, 'cos when I was reading some old floppies I came across this "treasure" (word used advisedly) trove.
Many of these I haven't looked at in over 30 years! If there are any copyright violations then please let me know and I'll remove the offending file. Because of the age of the archive and how it was built I can't prove provenance.
They're listed by filename, which isn't necessary the obvious order :-)
| ADV-LOC | Adventure Locations |
| ADV-LOC2 | More adventure locations |
| AI-EXAM | AI paper 2 resit |
| AIDS.LTR | A letter about AIDS benefits |
| AIDS.RAP | What the name suggests |
| ALICESLI | Alices Lisp |
| ALICESRE | Alices Restaurant |
| ALLCOCK.JT | Poem about John Thomas Allcock |
| ALLITER | Alliterations on names |
| AMERICAN.LAW | Some interesting laws passed in the US |
| AMERICAN.EDU | State of American Education |
| AMOROUS | The laws of amorous correspondence |
| APPLICA | Racist application form |
| ARTHUR.PUN | A punnish Love Story set in the time of King Arthur |
| ASTONISH | The result of putting VOTE through a speller |
| ATOMBOMB | How to build your own atom bomb |
| BAGHDAD.BTY | Quote from Iraq's Answer to Tokyo Rose |
| BAMBI.VT1 | A VT100 Picture of Bambi v Godzilla |
| BANK_ROB | Advice for bank robbers |
| BEER2 | Why Beer is Better Than Women |
| BIGGAME | Mathematical Theory of Big Game Hunting |
| BIONIC.DIC | The Tale Of Freddie Bloor |
| BIONIC2 | The Tale Of Freddies Girlfriend |
| BITJOKE | A bit of a joke: computer humour |
| BLACKADR.3 | Blackadder III: Wellington [an episode from the series] |
| BLAKES7.QUO | Classic Blakes 7 quotes |
| BOOKLIST | Book of Lists |
| BORED.PAS | Bored by Pascal? |
| BORON.JOK | A Boron Chemical Mystery |
| BRITISH.RL | Letter praising(?) British Rail |
| BUGS | Poem about bugs |
| BUSH | George Bush on atheism |
| CAFEMENU | How to get your own back on a cafe |
| CALIFORN.COD | The California way to code C programs |
| CAMBR.MAT | Quotes from Cambridge Maths Lecturers |
| CANA | By Rowan Atkinson |
| CARTOON | Cartoon Laws |
| CHINESE | I Like Chinese (Monty Python) |
| CHINMENU | Chinese Restaurant Menu |
| CHUNNEL | Ode To The Channel Tunnel |
| COFFEE | Various humour about coffee |
| COLD | DiLithium in a Cold Fusion Cell? |
| COLDFUSI | Real reports on Cold Fussion |
| COMPAQ.AD | A real Compaq computer advert |
| COMP.LAN | Beginners Guide To Computer Language |
| COMP.STR | Real(?) humorous computer stories |
| COMPUTER.BIB | Biblical Dictionary of Computing Terms |
| COMP_EXP.GLO | Compurter Experts Glossary |
| CONDOM | Girls Guide To Condoms |
| CONDUCTR | The Bus Conductor |
| CONSPIRA | Radio transcipt about Irangate |
| COUNT | A story with a moral |
| COUNTRY | Description of inhabitants of various countries |
| COWS | A canonical list of Cows |
| CRICKET | A Poem about cricket |
| CUCUMBER | Why cucumbers are better than men |
| CUTUP | Cutup code for a burroughsizer program |
| DARK.SUC | The Theory of Dark Suckers |
| DATAWOCK | Datawocky (poem) |
| DATING | Dating Agency Form |
| DECNET | Digital responds to Hyper-Ethernet |
| DECWARS | Follow the saga of Luke VaxHacker |
| DEVDRUM | Explanation of the /dev/drum special device |
| DEXDRUMM | The Adventures of Dex Drummond |
| DIDYOU | Did You Know who was... |
| DIET | The Sensual Dieters Guide (132 column) |
| DISCONTE | God being displeased with the world |
| DIYFUS | D.I.Y. Fusion (A "Dukes Of Hazzard Guide") |
| DOCTORS | Decoding Phrases used by Doctors |
| DOUGHNUT | Doughnuts and philosophy |
| DRINKING | The Beer Drinkers Fault Finding Guide |
| DRINKING.UNI | Drinkers guide using Uniplex graphics |
| DY1 | Bob Dylan Lyrics |
| EARTH | User Documentation. Region: Earth |
| EASTER | Animated "Happy Easter" |
| ELEMENT | New element administratium found |
| ELEPHANT | Elephant Jokes |
| EMAX | House Votes For Emacs By Narrow Majority |
| EMBER1 | The Dying Of Ember (Amber parody) |
| ERIC.BEE | Eric The Half A Bee |
| EVOLUTIO | Evolution of Man |
| EXETER.EXM | Exeter University Physics Exam (Part 1) |
| FAMOUS | Famous Men Of Science Poem |
| FAMOUS.FIV | Famous Five Have Another Jolly Adventure |
| FANTASY | A man recalls the previous night |
| FEAR | If a man can stand tall & proud, he will not be afraid |
| FERRARI | ASCII picture of a Ferrari |
| FESTIVE | How to tell if your part is going well |
| FILTH.BBC | The same dirty picture for BBC TYPE command |
| FILTH.VT1 | A Filthy picture for VT100 terminals |
| FIREWORK.VT | A VT100 picture of a bloke letting off fireworks |
| FOR_LIST | A Complete UNIX fortune list |
| FRACTION | A cautionary tale of Poly Nomials |
| FRANGLAI | Franglais Avec Mo Johnston |
| FRUITBAT | Everything you wanted to know about Fruitbats |
| FUCK | Usage of the word |
| FUCK.2 | A word for all seasons |
| GARFIELD | ASCII picture of Garfield |
| GENESIS | In The Beginning God was pissed????? |
| GEOGRAPH | Test paper on geography |
| GERMAN | German for beginners: The Car |
| GHOST | Three men stay a night in a house without toilets |
| GLOSSARY | A Glossary of computer terms |
| GOSPEL | The Gospel according to St Bureaucrat |
| GNUECHO | A "Unix" manual page(?) |
| HACKER.JAR | A Guide To Hackers Jargon |
| HACKER.POM | A poem about computer hacking |
| HACKER.TST | Test to see how much of a hacker you are |
| HAGGIS | Monty Python on the Origins of the Haggis |
| HAMLET | Fragments from Hamlets Notebook |
| HAMLET2 | Fragments from Hamlets Notebook |
| HAND | A Love Song(of sorts!) |
| HAPPY.LOV | Happy Loving Couples - a 100 question test |
| HEALTHY | Staying Healthy |
| HEAVEN | Heaven is Hotter Than Hell |
| HELP | Ravings of a depressed computer user (Edible Dormouse) |
| HEMOPHIL | Coping with Hemophilia |
| HITCH | Hitch Hikers Guide To The Net |
| HOBBIES | Various hobbies you could take up |
| HORSES | Proof that Horses have infinite legs |
| HUMOUR | Various stuff from rec.humour.funny |
| INKLISH | Quotes from foreign notices |
| INSURANC | Details as recorded on insurance forms |
| INTERNET.WRM | A report on the Internet Worm |
| INTERVIE | Freshers Talk (2nd Edition) |
| JELLO | Ray Tracing Jello-o Brand Gelatin |
| JOB.ELE | Job prediction based on elephant hunting |
| JOKE3 | Misc Jokes |
| JOKES | Misc Jokes |
| JUMPWASH | Jumperwashy |
| KLINGON | Variations on "You Klingon Bastard, you killed my Son" |
| LA1 | Laurie Anderson "Big Science" lyrics |
| LA2 | Laurie Anderson "Mister Heartbreak" lyrics |
| LADY1 | ASCII picture of a Lady (1) |
| LADY2 | ASCII picture of a Lady (2)-Baby Jane |
| LADY3 | ASCII picture of a Lady (3) |
| LADY4 | ASCII picture of a Lady (4) |
| LADY5 | An ASCII picture of a Lady (number 5) |
| LADY6 | Yet another... |
| LANGUAGE | Comments on programming languages |
| LASER | How to build a laser |
| LASTWORD | Famous last words involving F*** |
| LAWSOFTH | Laws of the Universe (fortune style comments) |
| LAWS.2 | More fortune style comments |
| LAZARUS.LNG | Extracts from the Notebook of Lazarus Long |
| LBJ2 | Light Bulb Jokes |
| LEAVE_PL | Advice on how to leave the planet |
| LIFE | Life is like a... |
| LIFF | The students meaning of Liff |
| LIGHTBUL | A canonical list of light bulb jokes |
| LIMERICK.MC | MClab limericks |
| LIMERICK | Dirty Limericks |
| LOGIC | Pub meeting with a student of Logic |
| LOGICAL2 | More Logical Laws |
| LONGJOKE | A file of Jokes (some long...) |
| LOVE | Mini & Micro-A Love Story |
| LUMBER.JCK | Lumberjack song (Monty Python) |
| LUNCH | Lunch the HP way |
| MANTA | Jokes about Manta Drivers (MD) |
| MATHS.JOK | Jokes mainly about Mathematicians |
| MATHS.PLY | A play containing your favorite Oxford Math lecturers |
| MENANDWO | The differences between men and women |
| MOTORBUS | Poem about a motorbus |
| MOUSE.BAL | Mouse balls - a technicians guide |
| MURDER | A short murder story |
| MUSIC.POL | A Poll by Making Music (not really a funny but..) |
| MYDOGSEX | My Dog Sex |
| NERD | The 100 question Nerd Test |
| NEVER_EN | Never Ending Story from Bangor |
| NEWYEAR | Animated "New year" message |
| NOMES | Nomes and how small animals live faster |
| NOVICE | Result of letting Novices at Computers |
| NRRA | Advert for NRRA and "Friends of Heavy Weaponry" |
| NUCLEAR | How to build a nuclear bomb |
| NUDGE.WNK | Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink (Monty Python) |
| ODE | Ode to a four letter word |
| OPCODES | Various Machine Op Codes |
| ORIGAMI | Make your own paper model |
| OWLS | First came the Cows, now come the Owls.... |
| OXFORD.MAT | Various quotes from Oxford Math's lecturers |
| OXYGEN | The dangers of Oxygen |
| PACMAN | ASCII picture (well I was told it was of a PacMan!) |
| PANTHER | ASCII picture of Pink Panther |
| PERV | The Perversions of Love |
| PETER | Thoughts while going to a bakery |
| PHYSICS | Physics Terms Made Easy |
| PICKUP | The canonical file of pickup lines |
| PINEAPPL | Use and Abuse of Pineapples |
| PLAYGIRL.LTR | A letter from PlayGirl magazine |
| PLI | An engineers attempt at PLI |
| POEM | Poem from Wierd-L server (I think) |
| POEM2 | Poem about Russian Nuclear accidents.... |
| POEM3 | A poem about a man and a woman in Cambridge |
| POLITICA.TRM | Official politically correct terms |
| PPL | The First Paranoid Programming Language |
| PRAYER | The Lords Prayer according to Trendy Bishops |
| PRIEST | A Pristly Story |
| PRIME | Various groups answering "Prove all odds are prime" |
| PRIVATE.EYE | Extracts from Feb 2nd 1990 edition |
| PROOF | Various Mathematic Proofs (e.g vigorous handwaving) |
| PROTECT | License agreement with built in soul catcher clause |
| PROVERBS | Proverbs, Sayings, Quotes |
| PUN.LIS | Extract of a leaving speach by Judith Proud, OUCS |
| PURITY | The 400q Purity Test |
| PURITY.1 | The 1q Purity Test |
| PYTHON | Various Monty Python sketches |
| QUOTES | Quotes about famous people |
| QUOTES.HP | Quotes from a qhiteboard at Hewlett-Packard |
| RANDOMIN | More Various Machine Op Codes |
| REAGAN | Poem about Ronnie |
| REAL2 | Real Programmers Don't Write Specs |
| REAL_PRO | Real Programmers Use Fortran |
| RELAY.HNT | Inspector's Relay Hints |
| RISC | Reduced Instruction Set |
| RISC.2 | Reduced Instruction Set (2) |
| ROLEPLAY | The umpteen million types of FRP players |
| ROMANCE | How romantic is your man? |
| ROTTEN.DAY | You can tell it's going to be a rotton day when... |
| ROWING | A rowing song from Univ Boat Club |
| SALESMAN | Travelling salesmen joke |
| SARTRE | Existential Programming |
| SBRAIN | A New computer algebra system |
| SCI_DICT | Dictionary of terms as relating to scientists |
| SECURE | A True Hacking story |
| SENNEX.MCD | Sennex McDonald habeat fundum, E I E I O! |
| SEX | Unix Manual Page |
| SEX.MAN | Introduction to Sex |
| SEXPASCA | Pascal predicates for Sex (with example programs) |
| SHEWAS | She was only a .... but she could ..... |
| SICK | Sick Jokes (no complaints please) |
| SITON.FCE | Sit On My Face (Monty Python) |
| SOAP | Story about one mans stay in a hotel |
| SOVIETS | Analysis of Soviet Navy Admirals |
| SPACE | At the edge of infinity - humourous story |
| SPANNER | Dick Spanner, Private Eye |
| SPARROW | Ode to a sparrow |
| SPELLTHI | Spellthinger - parody of the Spellsinger books |
| SPERM | Monty Python "Every Sperm Is Sacred" |
| SPOCK | ASCII Picture |
| ST-TNP1 | Star Trek:The Next Parody "The Wrath Of Tribbles" |
| ST-TNP2 | Worf In The Fold |
| ST-TNP3 | Pre-season Motion Picture |
| ST-TNP4 | The old series meets the next generation |
| ST-TNP5 | Where No Sane Man Should Go |
| ST-TNP6 | Where Everyone Has Gone Before |
| ST-TNP7 | Improper Channels |
| STAFF | University Computer Staff |
| STARTREK.VT1 | A VT100 piccie of the Enterprises Revenge on RCA |
| STUPID | Artficial Stupidity |
| SUPER.HER | Diary of a superhero |
| SURGERY | Home Surgery |
| SW-7D | Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs updated |
| SWEAR | Swearing by numbers |
| SWEDEN | Ravings about Sweden |
| TEACHING | Teaching through the ages |
| TEBBIT | The Tebbit Times Tables |
| TEDDY | "Teddy Bears Picnic" brutalised |
| TELLY | Rantings on TV programs |
| TEX | A shaggy TeX story |
| TEXAN.EEL | How to kill a Texan Eel |
| TIME | Grand Unification Theory Of Time |
| TOADS | Aussies getting high on Toad sweat |
| TRAINING | Special High Intensity Training (SHIT) |
| TRAMP | A tramp goes on holiday |
| TRANSPUT.JOK | Jokes about transputers |
| TRANSVES | Lyrics: Sweet Transvestite, from Rocky Horror |
| TRAVELSP | Travelspeak |
| TV_EVANG | TV Evangelism |
| TWEETIE.PIE | ASCII Picture |
| TWILIGHT.VT1 | Animated "advert" for the Twilight Zone |
| TYGER | "Tyger, Tyger" brutalised |
| UNIX | The Unix Philosophy |
| UNIXWARS | Unix Wars (earlier version of DEC Wars) |
| UNIXUSER | The hierarchy of Unix Users |
| VAX_VMS | Response to bugs in VMS 4.7 |
| VEGE | Poem about vegetables |
| VIRUS.IBM | Security alert - IBM Virus found |
| VOTE | Political History of "Estonia" |
| WALTER | Dunno what to write about this one. |
| WATER | Interview with Health Minister, Richard Slicker |
| WAY1 | 'Weird Al' Yankovic "Polka Party" lyrics |
| WEEKEND1 | An extract from one episode of "Week Ending" |
| WEEKEND2 | More from Radio 4 "Weekending" |
| WEEKEND3 | More from Radio 4 "Weekending" |
| WEEKEND4 | More from Radio 4 "Weekending" |
| WEIRD | Miscellanous stuff from "Weird-L server" |
| WHITE.MGC | Sheep as lovers |
| WIND | Poem about Wind |
| WOMBLE | Newsflash: Wombles are dangerous |
| WOMBLE2 | Newsflash2: update on WOMBLE |
| WOMEN.MEM | A Memo on Women |
| WOMEN.TRU | The truth about women |
| WORK | A CSP style chart of students work |
| WORLD.TEX | The World according to student bloopers |
| WORMS | Aussies try to save a Giant Worm |
| YTSQUIZ | The YTS Puzzle Page |
| Z | A New Programming language |
| ZAK.2 | A story full of mindless violence |
| ZOGS.1 | Chapter 1: A Brave New World |
| ZOGS.2 | Chapter 2: Freightal Error |