This is not a heavy post. It does not qualify as Wednesday morning dynamite. But anyway, I have noticed another chipmunk around my place, and it's quite reddish. What do you think of that?

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2002

Answers

Clairol.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2002

Check your strawberry patch :)

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2002

OG, I don't have a strawberry patch.

Now I am quite at peace with the little critters, but that would not be the case if I had a ravaged strawberry patch. And I'm not even English.

You may be thinking, "what an odd remark, that last." I am going by P.G. Wodehouse's definition of an English gardener: Someone who gets up in the middle of the night to see if a strawberry has happened.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2002

My chief mouser dropped a chipmonk in the toilet bowl once. I guess I should've kept that lid down when not in use.

(Yes, it was okay. I fished it out with a small butterfly net, and returned it to the wood pile.)

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2002

Lost on a rainy night, a nun stumbles across a monastery and requests shelter there. Fortunately, she's just in time for dinner and was treated to the best fish and chips she had ever tasted.

After dinner, she went into the kitchen to thank the chefs. She was met by two of the Brothers.

The first one says, "Hello, I am Brother Michael, and this is Brother Charles."

"I'm very pleased to meet you," replies the nun. "I just wanted to thank you for a wonderful dinner. The fish and chips were the best I've ever had. Out of curiosity, who cooked what?"

Brother Charles replied, "Well, I'm the fish friar."

She turned to the other Brother and said, "Then you must be...?"

"Yes, I'm afraid so -- I am the chip monk."

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2002

That's what I get for misspelling chipmunk. Good joke, though.

-- Anonymous, May 15, 2002

Meemur, the joke must have already been part of your collective unconsciousness...

-- Anonymous, May 16, 2002

LOLOLOL! Y'all are such hoots!. Good joke on the monastery-- obviously an English joke. Love the P. G. Wodehouse quote--had forgotten all about it. (Not surprisingly.)

-- Anonymous, May 18, 2002