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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: ANOTHER GROANER
Message-ID: <450@pyuxa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Dec-83 15:18:10 EST
Article-I.D.: pyuxa.450
Posted: Wed Dec 14 15:18:10 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Dec-83 02:38:52 EST
Organization: Bell Labs, Piscataway
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An offering.

There once lived a king on a small island in the South Pacific who
had a strange hobby.  His hobby was collecting thrones from around
the world.  Now this king lived in a grand palace built completly
of grass thatch.  Each day the king would order that one of the
thrones, kept in a storeroom on the second floor of the palace, be
brought to the reception room for his use for that day.  Each
evening the throne was returned to the storeroom on the second floor.

One day a boat arrived from a far land bearing a crate for the king.
The huge crate was carted into the throne room where the king was
beside himself with glee at the thought of opening the crate.  
Several of the king's servants pryed open the crate, and to the
king's delight, it contained another throne for his collection.

It was the throne of the former kingdom of Sedgewickia, and a
finer example of thronework had never been seen.  The king was 
so delighted with the throne that he had his servants remove the
throne he had been using for that day and replace it with the
new throne.  The servants carried the old throne away and placed
the new one in the spot of honor.

The king then walked reagally to his new throne and sat down.
Just then, the entire palace suddenly collapsed, killing the
king instantly as all of the thrones stored on the second floor
fell on him.

The moral of this story is -----------are you ready?






People who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones.