Funny Stories

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(story told by, Tom Miller & Jake Levi ;-)

(Disclaimer: Any possible similarities to real companies in the above tale are purely coincidental and nonintentional. No marine life was harmed in the making of this production. Compounded daily interest is figured at the square root of the hypotenuse of the radial cotangental cosine of cobler - we ran out of pie...)

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***A NEW Product!***

A friend sent some info on an exciting "new product release."

Please don't pass this on to anyone since it's still a secret.

He came up with a great new product to market, with secret ingredients.

You ought to order some as soon as it's available to the public!

We hear it's fantastic! Literally unbelievable results!

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It slices, it dices, it turns bad into good! Watch your reef tank take on colors like you could only imagine. Watch corals come to life with vibrant colors of the rainbow, brilliant coralline algae appear like magic. Now, Imagine everything in your reef tank effortlessly multiplying like crazy as you go nuts trying to keep up with it by selling and trading dozens of fish and coral cuttings per week at your local fish store to keep overcrowding at bay! Can you envision a money making machine of unparalleled proportions?

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We can't guarantee it, but shouldn't you give it a try!? Reports are aloft that varieties of difficult-to-raise snails are now multiplying like rabbits where others hardly succeeded before. And to think, all of this could be possible only after drinking a little bit of Sukertivore (TM) yourself! Just wait 'til you try it in your reef tanks.

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(end of advertisement)

Also you might try dosing your tanks with "Reality" (no trademark), another great product that's been around much longer. They often give free samples at many locations. I think you may be able to find it on the dealer's shelf right next to "Sukertivore (TM)" so you can buy whichever you think best... The "Reality" is not packaged quite so pretty as Suckertivore (TM) so it's easy to miss.

Corally,
& Happy Holidays,
with tongue firmly in cheek

Tom Miller & Jake Levi

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The following, by Eric Merkel, is all too true, but funny:

On the way out of the LFS (local fish store), my wife says, "Honey, those little fishies are beautiful, and a good deal at $10 a piece, but why did that guy charge you $50 for those rocks??"

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"A Punny Story"

This punny story smelt a little fishy, but is in good taste. It is from Bennett Cerf's book Anything For a Laugh. Published by Grosset & Barret in 1946. Tom Miller's eldest son, Alex, found it in this book which belonged to his great grandfather. A little bit of it is dated, so if you have trouble getting all the puns, maybe you're not old enough. Read it with a grandparent. Cerf's up! Hope you enjoy it.

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PUNDITS TELL us that Allah refrained from deducting from the allotted time of man those hours spent in fishing. If Allah was in his right mind, however, he'd deduct thirty years from the perpetrator of the following mess of piscatorial puns:

The prettiest she-fish in the whole aquarium was Bess Porgy. Young John Haddock's gills fluttered with suppressed poisson every time she, and her chubby friend, Mazie Angelfish, slithered down the pike. To kipper in comfort was his consuming obsession.

Trouble loomed, however, when the two girls worked out a sister act and opened at the Globe under the management of Salmon & Shuster who sat in the second roe (he was slightly hard of herring) and viewed the performance with a sardinic smile. "Confidentially," he told a grouper friends later, "the girls' act smelt, but they're pretty cute tricks. I found the one who was barracuda."

John Haddock's sole shriveled at these words. "Only an act of cod will keep my Bess out of his clutches," he muttered shadly. Mazie Angelfish tried to rally him. "Don't be blue," she counseled. "You are no common weakfish. You are a Haddock. Remember Dorothy Vernon of Haddock Hall. Get in there and put that bass, sailfish old flounder trout!"

John squared what passes for shoulders in a fish. "Thanks, Mazie," he spluttered. "By gum and bivalve, I'll get out of this pickerel yet. If that shrimp expects to mackerel have me to reckon with!"

Suiting the action to the words, he knocked his rival off his perch so effishently that poor Mr. Goldfish whaled for the carps - and a sturgeon to get the bones out of his mouth.

"I did it on porpoise," cried the exultant John Haddock, clasping Bess, who looked prettier than Marlin Dietrich, to his slippery chest.

It was all such a shark to Mr. Goldfish that he's been ell to this very day.

The Haddocks had a tarpon time of it ever after.

FINNY
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