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FISHINLADY
10-26-2002, 06:14 PM
An elderly couple were on a cruise and it was really stormy. They
were
> > standing on the back of the boat watching the moon, when a wave came
up
> > and washed the old man overboard. They searched for days and
couldn't
> > find him, so the captain sent the old woman back to shore with the
> > promise that he would notify her as soon as they found something.
Three
> > weeks went by and finally the old woman got a fax from the boat. It
> > read: "Madam, sorry to inform you, we found your husband dead at the
> > bottom of the ocean. We hauled him up to the deck and attached to
his
> > butt was an oyster and in it was a pearl worth $50,000..please
advise"
> > The old woman faxed back: "Send me the pearl and re-bait the trap"
> >