Washing The Dog

"Bee"

The summer band class was just getting
under way when a large insect flew into the room.

The sixth-graders, eager to play their shiny
new instruments, tried to ignore the buzzing
intruder, but eventually one student, Tommy,
could stand it no more.

He rolled up his music book and swatted
the insect, then he stomped on it to ensure its fate.

"Is it a bee?" another student asked.

"Nope," Tommy replied. "Bee flat."

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"Washing The Dog"

A young boy, about eight years old, was at the corner
"Mom & Pop" grocery picking out a pretty good size
box of laundry detergent.

The grocer walked over, and, trying to be friendly,
asked the boy if he had a lot of laundry to do.

"Oh, no laundry," the boy said, "I'm going to wash my dog."

"But you shouldn't use this to wash your dog. It's
very powerful and if you wash your dog in this,
he'll get sick. In fact, it might even kill him."

But the boy was not to be stopped and carried the
detergent to the counter and paid for it, even as
the grocer still tried to talk him out of washing his dog.

About a week later the boy was back in the store
to buy some candy. The grocer asked the boy how his dog was doing.

"Oh, he died," the boy said.

The grocer, trying not to be an I-told-you-so, said
he was sorry the dog died but added, "I tried to tell
you not to use that detergent on your dog."

"Well," the boy replied, "I don't think it was the detergent that killed
him."

"Oh? What was it then?"

"I think it was the spin cycle!"
Received on Fri Feb 22 02:46:23 2008