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From: werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Terrible pun (which appeared in Parade Magazine)
Message-ID: <2169@aecom.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 02:56:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  9 02:56:49 1986
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Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY
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> A man walked into a florist's shop late one afternoon.  Being that it
> was so late in the day, there was nothing left but some ferns.  The
> proprietor, who wanted to make a sale, told the prospective customer:
> 
>      "Don't worry.  With fronds like these, who needs anemones?"
> 
> Sorry.

	It appeared first in Smithsonian, quoted from a new book on Puns, and
it originally was the man's wife who uttered the chilling line when he
eventually presented her the plants.

	Hey look, I nit-picked in '.d'
-- 

				Craig Werner
				!philabs!aecom!werner
                 "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."