The Origin of Greek Tragic Drama Jokes

[Tom Stanton]

At 12:00 AM 6/3/97 -0400, Mittelwerk at aol.com wrote:
>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)?

You have 8 "shelf keeping units" or SKUs in retail parlance. Although
the "items" are identical, each one is its own unit. Back to the main
line, buster...