Catching Dinner

"Selling Eggplants"

A grocer put up a sign that read: "Eggplants,
25¢ each or three for a dollar."

All day long, customers came in exclaiming,
"Don't be ridiculous! I should get four for a dollar!"

Meekly the grocer capitulated and packaged
four eggplants. The tailor next door had been
watching these antics and finally asked the
grocer, "Aren't you going to fix the mistake on
your sign?"

"What mistake?" the grocer asked. "Before
I put up that sign no one ever bought more
than one eggplant."

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"Catching Dinner"

Jim had an awful day fishing on the lake, sitting
in the blazing sun all day without catching a single
one. On his way home, he stopped at the
supermarket and ordered four catfish.

He told the fish salesman, "Pick four large ones
out and throw them at me, will you?"

"Why do you want me to throw them at you?"

"Because I want to tell my wife that I caught them."

"Okay, but I suggest that you take the orange roughy."

"Why's that?"

"Because your wife came in earlier today and
said that if you came by, I should tell you to
get the roughy. She prefers that for supper tonight."
Received on Thu Jan 10 07:22:53 2008