From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!adams
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: A Fish Story - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.413
Posted: Sat Aug  7 10:32:57 1982
Received: Sun Aug  8 02:36:00 1982

#N:uiucdcs:9900015:000:1607
uiucdcs!adams    Jul 25 00:46:00 1982

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     Once there was a young man named  fred.   Fred,  although  a

studious  young fellow, and a bright one to boot, never graduated

from grammar school.  For many years after he was  a  grownup  he

attributed  this  to the fact that he was a lizard.  Then one day

as he slithered down the street a  young  mother  and  her  young

child  (Everyone  in his town was young.  Thats why it was called

YOUNGSTOWN) looked at him and the mother said, "Look junior thats

a dolphin just like the one in your picture book".  "Uh pardon me

miss", said Fred,"But I'm a lizard".  "Now  young  man"  (He  was

from  YOUNGSTOWN after all) "I know perfectly well that YOU are a

dolphin! And you're not fooling anyone  with  that  silly  lizard

story."  Fred  was so enraged by this that he ate both the mother

and child.


     Several minutes later fred was apprehended by the police for

voluntary  woman  and  child  slaughter  (As opposed to voluntary

manslaughter). When asked why he did it he replied "She called me

a dolphin!" "But you are a dolphin" the police chief said.  "Here

look at yourself". As fred looked at his reflection in the  shiny

black surface of the policeman's gun, he realised that by godfrey

he was a dolphin.  Filled  with  remorse  and  guilt  he  quickly

regurgitated  the two young people (From you know where) and they

all lived happily ever after.


     The moral of this story is "Never eat  anyone  just  because

they  have  given  you a hard time.  They may not have done it on

Porpoise."


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