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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: versatile word - correct derivation, and a joke
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Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 23:08:46 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 25 23:08:46 1985
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Summary: 

This came from the ?good? ole days of putting people in the stocks
and making them wear scarlet letters and other neat stuff for the
heinous crime of adultery.  The letters stood for the reasoning given
by the court:

F or
U nlawful
C arnal
K nowledge

Now, for the joke:

This salesman has been bugging a haberdasher (guy who runs a suit shop)
for a long time for a job, and finally the haberdasher looks at him
in disgust and says, "Look, I'll make a deal with you.  I've got one
suit that I just haven't been able to sell -- that purple, yellow, and
green thing in the corner.  If you can sell it while I'm out to lunch;
you can have a sales job here for life!"  And with a smug smile he goes
to lunch.

He comes back and the salesman runs up to him, exclaiming:  "I sold the
suit!  I sold the suit!"  The owner looks at him in dismay -- the
salesman's clothes are ripped and torn all to hell, his face is scratched
and bruised and bleeding.  The owner says, "What happened; did the
customer put up a fight!?"  The salesman quickly replies, "Oh, no; not
at all -- but his seeing eye dog was pissed!"

Thanks to Playboy for a well-written version of this joke for me to paraphrase,
-- 

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