From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!wjh12!mjl
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: Re: Riddle
Article-I.D.: wjh12.133
Posted: Fri Jan 14 14:47:11 1983
Received: Sat Jan 15 08:42:59 1983
References: pyuxqq.109

The way I heard it, the joke takes place some time in the future, when man
has learned to communicate with porpoises (should this be in net.sf-lovers?).
Anyway, we have learned that porpoises have their own vary advanced science,
and have in fact learned to reverse the aging process and live forever.  There
is, however, one problem with living forever: it gets awfully boring after a
while.  The scientists working with the porpoises are willing to pay the 
price of a little boredom in exchange for eternal life, and ask the dolphins
(sorry, porpoises) for the secret.  The porpoises agree, but on one condition:
the scientists must bring them some mynah birds so they can continue their 
studies on language in lower animals.  (Obviously, since mynah birds live in 
the open air, the porpoises cannot get them alone.)  The scientists agree, but
point out that it will take some time to get the birds.  The porpoises say 
they will wait.  (What else have they got to do, right?)

Well, off go the scientists to Africa or South America, or wherever one goes
to find mynah birds in the wild.  They capture some birds and return to the
lab, only to find that the door is blocked by a large and hungry-looking 
lion that escaped from the zoo that afternoon.  Being quick-thinking types, 
they rush off to find a gun and some tranquilizer darts, with which they put
the beast to sleep.  They crawl over the snoring lion and begin to enter the
lab, thinking that success is within their grasp.  Just at that moment, they 
are arrested by local authorities.  The charge?

Transporting mynahs across sedated lions for immortal porpoises.


---> No flames, please!

Matt Landau
...decvax!genradbolton!wjh12!mjl