The Origin of Greek Tragic Drama Jokes

[Henry Musikar]

The cat food must all be the same brand, the same price -- the cans 
must be stacked. Bananas must be in a hand to count as one item, 
multiple instances of other fruits must be bagged. The baby must be 
cut in half....

On  3 Jun 97 at 0:00, Mittelwerk at aol.com <Mittelwerk at aol.com> wrote:

> 
> now
> 
> you'e at the checkout line at Price Chopper, express lane, 5 items
> or less, repeat, you must be checking out 5 items or less.
> 
> now, if you have four different 'items,' yet one of these 'items'
> happens to be cat food, of which you are about to purchase 5 cans of
> said substance,
> 
> what do you have?  4 items (with one item in a quantity of 5)?
> 
> or,
> 
> 8 items, effectively disbarring you fom usage of the express lane?
> 

AsB4,
Henry Musikar

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