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 - 610 - 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." - 610 -