A wretched young man of Cape Horn

Said "I wish I had never been born,

And I shouldn't have been

If my father had seen

That the end of the letter was torn."

In a joke I read somewhere, a Frenchwoman comes into a shop and asks for "une capote noire". The shopkeeper, improbably misunderstanding her, asks why on earth she wants a black on. She explains that she is in mourning for her late husband. "Quelle delicatesse!" exclaims the shopkeeper.

--- Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

||: You're never too old to do something stupid. :||