A little boy comes into a hardware shop and asks for a packet of detergent. "What do you want it for?" asks the proprietor. "To wash my budgerigar" says the boy. "That won't do it any good" says the proprietor; but the boy buys it anyway.

A few days later, in comes the same little boy. "How is the budgie?" asks the proprietor. "Dead" says the boy. "What did I tell you?" says the proprietor. "It wasn't the detergent that did it" says the boy. "It was the wringer."

--- Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

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