On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 01:53 am, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 01:17 AM 5/30/03 +0100, William T Goodall wrote:Why is a mule like a banana?
You can break something falling down off either one.
Actually it was the very dull answer that you have to clone them.
Actually, I knew that, but as you acknowledge, that was a dull answer. And though as far as I can recall I have never slipped on a banana peel, I have been thrown by a mule . . .
(Fortunately, I didn't break anything, though IIRC my "funny bone" tingled something fierce for a few minutes. After it stopped, though, I got back on the mule and we came to an understanding: I wouldn't slap her on the butt� again to make her get going and she wouldn't try to throw me any more.)
(�It was my grandfather's mule, and his suggestion. For some reason, he and my father both found the results more amusing than I did.)
(bananas are all clones (in the biological sense) because they are grown from cuttings. No seeds...)
I suspect that a mule might _really_ hurt you if you tried to take some cuttings from him/her/it . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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