Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utai.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!utai!hunterj From: hunterj@utai.UUCP (James Hunter) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Old Boat joke Message-ID: <328@utai.UUCP> Date: Sun, 23-Dec-84 18:44:27 EST Article-I.D.: utai.328 Posted: Sun Dec 23 18:44:27 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 19:41:35 EST Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 22 It seems that there were twin brothers by the name of Jones. Now John was married, but Joe was still single and the proud possessor of an old dilapidated row-boat. It so happened that the day John's wife died, Joe's row-boat filled with water and sank. A few days later, a kindly old lady met Joe on the street, and mistaking him for John, she exclaimed: "Oh, Mr. Jones, I was sorry to hear of your loss. You must feel terrible." Joe replied: "Well, I am not a bit sorry. She was a rotten old thing from the start. Her bottom was all chewed up and she smelled like an old dead fish; why the first time I got into her, she made water faster than anything you ever saw. She had a big hole in behind and a crack that got bigger every time that I used her. After a while I got so that I could handle her, but this is what really finished her... Four guys from the other side of town were out looking for a good time, and asked me if I would rent her to them. Well I warned them that she wasn't too hot but let them take a crack at her anyway. The result was the crazy fools all tried to get into her at once, but it was too much for her and she cracked right up the middle... Before he could continue, the old lady fainted.