Unicorn (Unicorn@Indenial.com)
Sat, 18 Sep 1999 03:15:57 -0400
"City Zoo Semantics"
The manager of a large city zoo was
drafting a letter to order a pair of animals.
He sat at his computer and typed the
following sentence: "I would like to place
an order for two mongooses, to be
delivered at your earliest convenience."
He stared at the screen, focusing on that
odd word mongooses. Then he deleted
the word and added another, so that the
sentence now read: "I would like to place
an order for two mongeese, to be delivered
at your earliest convenience."
Again he stared at the screen, this time
focusing on the new word, which seemed
just as odd as the original one. Finally, he
deleted the whole sentence and started all
over. "Everyone knows no full - stocked zoo
should be without a mongoose," he typed.
"Please send us two of them."
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"Mongoose In A Box"
The drunk was floundering down the alley
carrying a box with holes on the side. He
bumped into a friend who asked, "What
'cha got there, pal?"
"A mongoose."
"What the heck for?"
"Well, you know how drunk I can get.
When I get drunk I see snakes, and I'm
scared to death of snakes. That's why I
got this mongoose, for protection."
"But," the friend said, "you idiot! Those
are imaginary snakes."
"That's okay," said the drunk, showing his
friend the interior of the box,
"So is the mongoose."
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