Autzoo.1461 net.jokes utcsrgv!utzoo!kcarroll Wed Mar 3 12:38:23 1982 It Seems That... ...there was an troop of Martians out on maneuvers (you could tell that they were Martians; they had names like Xylph, Qorp, and Valentine Smith). After several dozen months in the field (Martian months are much shorter than Terrestrial ones, depending on whether you reckon by Deimos or Phobos) the CO had the troops mustered, to deliver a message. "Men", he said (of course they weren't men, but that's how the word best translates), "I have some good news and some bad news. I realize that you haven't had a change of underwear since we left base; the good news is that today you get to change your underwear! The bad news is...Qorp, you change with Smith. Xylph, you change with..." ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.