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From: ark@ut-sally.UUCP (Arthur M. Keller)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Another Shaggy Dog story
Message-ID: <3858@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Dec-85 01:58:16 EST
Article-I.D.: ut-sally.3858
Posted: Sat Dec 21 01:58:16 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Dec-85 00:19:11 EST
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Keywords: big fruit, bad pun

I have gotten some positive responses for posting stories (but there was
one disparaging remark, although not directed at me, and I didn't even
find that person's joke funny or I didn't understand it).  So here goes:

There was once an agricultural extension of a community college that
was into growing big fruit.  Now we're really talking big fruit here:
they grew blueberries the size of oranges and strawberries the size of
grapefruits.  Not only were they big, but they were also the sweetest,
juiciest, most luscious fruit you've ever tasted.  Realizing the
commercial value of such fruit, before attempting large scale
cultivation, they decided to insure these fruit.  But in order to get
something insured, you need to have it valued for insurance purposes.
What do academics know about insurance anyway?  So they look in the
phone book, and call the first entry: the Acme Insurance Valuation
Service.  These two guys show up and they are pretty shady looking
characters; they're not wearing lab coats, they're wearing
trenchcoats!  The guys from Acme pick up the fruit and start walking
out with it.  The scientists are surprised and incensed, and ask "Are
you going to value them here, or give us a receipt, or what?"  The two
guys from Acme reply "We have come to seize your berries, not to
appraise them."

Well, that's it for now.  More later.

Arthur
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