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From: linden@positive.eng.sun.com (Peter van der Linden)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.usage.english
Subject: About clear communication
Date: 10 Aug 1994 23:58:48 GMT

Here is the most hilarious thing I have read in a long, long, while (apart from snopes essay on "why I love cats, not dogs.")

Many people here will appreciate it. I endorse Jeff's S.J.Perelman recommendation too, but this is more in the style of, say, P.G. Wodehouse. Either way, it's a corker.

Anybody know where this comes from, or who Lawrence Bush is?

                        Ships in the Night
                         By Lawrence Bush, Accord, N.Y.

I had only just arrived at the club when I bumped into Roger. After we had exchanged a few pleasantries, he lowered his voice and asked, "What do you think of Martha and I as a potential twosome?"

"That," I replied, "would be a mistake. Martha and me is more like it." "You're interested in Martha?"
"I'm interested in clear communication." "Fair enough," he agreed. "May the best man win." Then he sighed. "Here I thought we had a clear path to becoming a very unique couple."

"You couldn't be a very unique couple, Roger." "Oh? And why is that?"
"Martha couldn't be a little pregnant, could she?" "Say what? You think that Martha and me...." "Martha and I."
"Oh." Roger blushed and set down his drink. "Gee, I didn't know." "Of course you didn't." I assured him. "Most people don't." "I feel very badly about this."
"You shouldn't say that: I feel bad...." "Please, don't, " Roger said. "If anyone's at fault here, it's me!"