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To: PatrickHenry
Years ago, a regulation was promulgated by some bureaucracy that was supposed to read: No Tariff on Foreign Fruit-Plants."

For a few days it read: "No Tariff on Foreign Fruit, Plants."

41 posted on 08/31/2005 1:24:02 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
"One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas I don't know."

-- Some actor in Animal Crackers

42 posted on 08/31/2005 1:31:53 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
Commas in headlines can be important:
Weird, man dies.
Weird man dies.

43 posted on 08/31/2005 1:36:35 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
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