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Article #1144Re: Terrible pun (which appeared in Parade Magazine)
From: Craig Werner
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1986 07:56
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1986 07:56
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> A man walked into a florist's shop late one afternoon. Being that it
> was so late in the day, there was nothing left but some ferns. The
> proprietor, who wanted to make a sale, told the prospective customer:
>
> "Don't worry. With fronds like these, who needs anemones?"
>
> Sorry.
It appeared first in Smithsonian, quoted from a new book on Puns, and
it originally was the man's wife who uttered the chilling line when he
eventually presented her the plants.
Hey look, I nit-picked in '.d'
--
Craig Werner
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"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site aecom.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!philabs!aecom!werner From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Terrible pun (which appeared in Parade Magazine) Message-ID: <2169@aecom.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 02:56:49 EST Article-I.D.: aecom.2169 Posted: Thu Jan 9 02:56:49 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jan-86 06:44:46 EST References: <1367@garfield.columbia.edu> Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY Lines: 18