From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!sdcattb!wa146
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: Answer to Riddle
Article-I.D.: sdcattb.2591
Posted: Sat Apr 23 15:44:05 1983
Received: Mon Apr 25 20:41:22 1983


	The answer to the last riddle, and the riddle, are:

	A man, his wife, and their steward go on a cruise around the world and
are shipwrecked on a desert island.  The man and wife are both badly injured.
	Years later, the man goes into a restaurant where the steward now works
and he orders shark meat.  When the ex-steward brings the man the dish, the man
takes one taste, jumps up, and shoots the steward dead.  Why?

	When stranded on the desert island the wife had died, and the steward,
being a rather thrifty fellow, used her for food to save himself and the man
from starving.  When the man discovered that shark tasted nothing like the
island cuisine, he knew the story and shot the steward for his awful deed.

						Brian Sutin