Acwruecmp.69 net.jokes utzoo!decvax!cwruecmp!magill Sun Apr 11 00:50:12 1982 story time Once upon a time... There were these clergy, you see, who moved into the little backwater town of New Concord, OH. and opened up a flower shop. Unfortunately for the children of the village, the clergy keep an experimental garden in the back of the shop. One day, as some of the children were on their way home from school, they decided to take a shortcut through the revered garden. They were all eaten by a very large man eating plant (triffid for those avid biols). The townspeople, needless to say, were slightly peeved. An emergency town meeting was immediatly called. The clergy received an eviction notice the next day and promptly filed it in the circular file. One week later, the townspeople decided to take more forceful measures; the mayor, himself, paid a personnal call on the clergy and was promptly thrown out on his tail. When Hough Steffanwiler, the town blacksmith heard about this he stormed down to the flower shop and physically threw the silly clergy out of town and burned the plant. Morale: Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent florist friars. Rich Magill CWRU ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.