Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!ima!ism780!jeff From: jeff@ism780.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: horrible pun Message-ID: <407@ism780.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Oct-84 00:16:26 EDT Article-I.D.: ism780.407 Posted: Thu Oct 18 00:16:26 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 06:37:22 EDT Lines: 0 Nf-ID: #N:ism780:11100055:000:1289 Nf-From: ism780!jeff Oct 17 12:52:00 1984 The great detective was explaining how he had finished off Count Dracula. "It was really quite simple, I had him change his citizenship." "But there must have been more to it than that!" exclaimed his companion and biographer. "No, actually, not. I sent him a series of travel folders, some books on the history of England, and the estate advertisements from the Sunday Times. He quickly leased a large manor in the lake district and moved his household. Then he turned in his Transynvanian passport and became a subject of the crown. He then set his alarm clock, ready to rise when the sun set, to go off in search of fresh blood. But when he awoke, it was still day. He thought he had miscalculated, reset his alarm clock for 12 hours later, and dozed off again. When the clock went off, it was still daylight. He was shocked. He started setting the clock for shorter and shorter intervals, until finally in frustration, ignoring the danger, he leapt out of his coffin, and took off in search of me, realizing what had happened. Of course, once in the sunlight, his demise was assured." His companion was still puzzled. "Well, what happened. It can't be so simple." "Elementary my dear chap. Hadn't you heard that the sun never sets on the British vampire?"