Dog Show

April Fool's Day, 2008. A day that, for some reason, we have decided to dedicate to the playing of practical jokes, pranks, and general tomfoolery upon others.

I tried to get all the workers in my little unit to call in sick early this morning - we have an automated absence notification process - and then show up for work at our usual time, anyway. But no one wanted to play along, the sissies.

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There once was a teacher - who went by the nickname, "Teach" - who also judged at dog shows in his spare time. He relates the story of Cathy, a woman who wanted to enter her dogs in the show, so she took them to obedience classes and spent months training them and grooming them.

Then, about a week before the show, she took her dogs to her sister's house while she watched her nieces and nephews for her sister, who had to go away for the weekend.

Well, the kids wound up teasing the dog mercilessly and consequently they forgot most of their training. Cathy, in desperation, decided to enter her sister's dogs into the show, who were reasonably well-behaved.

However, the judge wasn't fooled. At the end of the show he admonished Cathy, "You can't trick an old Teach with new dogs!"

[JokeMaster; edited by Mark Raymond]

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WORDS for YOUR WEEK: "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask is a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb)

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