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From: jon@nsc-pdc.UUCP (Jon Maybell)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: shaggy clams
Message-ID: <532@nsc-pdc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 20:37:48 EST
Article-I.D.: nsc-pdc.532
Posted: Thu Jan 23 20:37:48 1986
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Reply-To: jon@nsc-pdc.UUCP (Jon Maybell)
Organization: NSC Portland Development Center, Portland Oregon
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    Louie the Lobster and Sam the Clam were best friends, and travelled
everywhere together on the bottom of ocean.  Both were accomplished 
musicians, and spent many happy hours playing duets.  One day, as they
were engaged in a jam session with some flounder, the entire company
was consumed by a passing whale.

    Louie the Lobster, renowned throughout the seaworld for his honesty
and virtue, was immediately transported to heaven.  Saint Peter met him
at the Pearly Gates, issued him wings and a golden harp, and invited 
Louie to play with the Celestial Choir.

    His old friend, Sam, was less fortunate.  A lifetime of sin reaped
its reward:  Sam the Clam was cast into hell.

    Louie the Lobster was an accomplished musician, and played the harp
so beautifully, he was soon God's favorite.  Time passed, and Louie
came to miss his old friend, Sam.  One day God passed by, and enquired
as to the source of Louie's unhappiness.

    "I miss my old friend, Sam the Clam," said Louie.

    "You may visit your friend for one day," said God;  "but be sure
you return before the Pearly Gates close at midnight."

    Louie was overjoyed;  stopping only to pick up his harp, he 
hurried down to hell.  Upon entering, he saw a large neon sign over
a nightclub, reading:  "SAM THE CLAM'S DISCOTHEQUE".  Louie stepped
inside, and discovered his old friend Sam leading a rock and roll
band.  When Sam saw Louie, he clapped him on the back, and invited
him to join the band to play that evening.

    Louie lost all track of time, as he and Sam played all their old
favorites.  Suddenly a bell began to strike midnight, and Louie
remembered God's admonishment to be inside the Pearly Gates before
they closed.  He said goodby to Sam, and rushed back to Heaven.  

    Louie the Lobster squeaked through the gates at the stroke of
midnight, just as they were closing.  Saint Peter looked at him and
said, "You left with your harp.  Where is it now?"

    Louie replied, "Oh, I left my harp in Sam Clam's Disco!"
    

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