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- From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: a Punday delurking
- Message-ID: <OLSON.93Jan20225644@husc8.harvard.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 03:56:44 GMT
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- In-reply-to: hilp@hfglobe.intel.com's message of Wed, 20 Jan 1993 00:04:13 GMT
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- In article <C14LJ3.D9L@hfglobe.intel.com> hilp@hfglobe.intel.com (Robin Rosenbaum) writes:
-
- >"Hi," she says, "I'm Ruby Tuesday." She puts a bill on the bar and
- >accepts a tomato juice with a slice of lemon.
- >"We thought there was enough silver to last a while, and hoped the devil
- >would be satisfied with that. But I heard today that it's gold Wendy
- >Ann's owing, so I have my ghoul ashes, carp, stalking cat, and kittens
- >on hand." Ruby settles back in the armchair to finish her drink.
-
- There is silence for a long moment as Ruby finishes her drink, then a col-
- lective cry of "AAAARRRRGGHHHH!!!!!!" emanates from Callahan's Bar as the
- entire company run screaming into the night holding their noses.
-
- As they re-enter, one fellow walks over to Ruby. "Congratulations, that was
- utterly atrocious, indeed worthy of Doc Webster himself. I'm Castellan,
- and as those who know me would attest, I have a bit of an affinity for awful
- puns... but I'm afraid that masterpiece has me utterly beat."
-
- --
- -Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu
- "If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
- Maybe we would if they screamed all the time for no good reason." -J. Handey
-