From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!dsd!atd!avsdS:avsdT:mark Newsgroups: net.jokes Title: A really dull joke (600 lines) Article-I.D.: avsdT.276 Posted: Fri Jan 28 19:48:09 1983 Received: Mon Jan 31 04:55:40 1983 In ancient Rome, a man named Brutus used to spend his time cultivating berries. One year he discovered that one of his berries had grown to an immense size, in fact it was so big that it would only just fit in his garden. After a while this became widely known and people used to travel for miles, just to see this berry and to compliment Brutus on how big it was. He became so popular that there was speculation that he might become the next Roman dictator. Understandably, Ceasar was not to happy about this and he ordered two of his best guards to go over to Brutus's house and to take his berry. They arrived just after 5 in the evening and Brutus was shutting his door after the last visitor had left. "I'm sorry, you'll have to come back tomorrow morning to see the berry", he said. One of the guards then replied ....... "We've come to Seize the berry, not to praise it".