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".