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From: hunterj@utai.UUCP (James Hunter)
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Subject: Old Boat joke
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Date: Sun, 23-Dec-84 18:44:27 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 23 18:44:27 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 19:41:35 EST
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  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.