Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site dadla.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!teklds!dadla!rick From: rick@dadla.UUCP (Rick Pederson) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Shaggy dog story Message-ID: <206@dadla.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 21:01:45 EST Article-I.D.: dadla.206 Posted: Wed Mar 6 21:01:45 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 11:02:10 EST Distribution: net Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 26 *** RELINE THIS PLACE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** This is an old "shaggy dog" story, but I have never seen it posted before so here goes. It seems that there was this ancient kingdom located on the shore of the Mediterranian. The principal industry of this kingdom was the manufacture of purple dye from a certain species of shellfish. As nobody else made this dye and it was in high demand, the kingdom was quite prosperous. One day, word came down that a large faraway country had invaded a small, friendly neighboring country. The people of the kingdom began to leave to go to the aid of this small country and dye production started to drop off. The king decided that he had to do something to keep his country from going bankrupt so he posted guards at all of his borders with orders to let nobody pass who had purple stains on their hands (e.g. dye makers). The people managed to evade his blockade by crossing the border at night and the country went broke anyway. The moral to this story is: OLD DYERS NEVER FADE, THEY JUST SOLDIER AWAY.