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From: carl@ncr-tp.UUCP (Carl Kuck)
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Subject: A (slightly late) Father Goose joke - all puns intentional
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Date: Wed, 3-Apr-85 12:55:34 EST
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   Sorry about not mailing this in time for the posting of the canonical
collection, but I wanted to make sure that this was an *absolutely original*
F.G. joke.  It goes something like this ...


  Once upon a time there was a flock of geese.  Like all geese, they would fly
south for the winter and north for the summer.  And, like all geese, they
would fly in one of those impressive  "V"  formations with the lead gander
out in front.  Well, it seems that there was one goose named DeeDee (or Dee
for short), who had a great deal of difficulty following the lead gander's
instructions.  Maybe it was due to a mechanical defect in her (sorry ladies)
wings, or maybe it was just brain damage due to flying through polluted air.
At any rate, when the flock would turn right, Dee would fly the other way,
often crashing into the other geese in the formation.  Needless to say, this
spoiled a great looking formation and proved to be *very embarrassing*.  In
order to take care of the problem, the lead gander told her that she would
have to fly at the end of the formation, thus avoiding any mid-air crashes
and saving the lead gander much face.  When describing the problem and his
solution to it, the lead gander told a reporter from the Audobon Society
magazine:

   "Dee, who flaps last, flaps left"


GROANNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope you enjoyed it, joke 'em if they can't take a ...

  - Carl

-- 
     Happy Hacking, Carl  (carl@ncr-tp)

" Ask me no questions and I might not tell you any lies ... fnord ... "