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Walter Redfem contributed the story of a talking horse. The handsome animal had become quite famous—and quite high-priced—for his remarkable talent. An advertising agency called the horse and asked him to appear in a commercial for a new itching powder. The horse, expecting to have a speaking role, was plainly miffed when he learned that he was only to whinny. For this, he would receive a minimum fee. The offended horse at last agreed, but he continued to complain. The producer, he said, was making him neigh through the pose.
Elmore Leonard and John Cantwell contributed two versions of a golden oldie about the sultan’s favorite dolphins. The ruler loved them so dearly that he kept a pride of lions to guard their lagoon. The dolphins could live forever on a diet of pigeon meat.
One day, alas, the dolphins’ keepers ran out of pigeon meat. In desperation, they tranquilized the lions and brought gull meat instead. Police swiftly discovered their crime and brought appropriate charges. They arrested the keepers for transporting gulls acorss state lions for immortal porpoises.
And then there is the one about i the squaw on the hippopotamus hide, sitting next to the sons of the squaws on the other two hides. There is the one about the king who stowed his throne is a grass house, and the one about...But you’ve heard these classic tales. What pun we have with words!
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