Subj : Re: Joke
To   : comp.programming
From : Gerry Quinn
Date : Wed Sep 28 2005 11:48 am

In article <dTb_e.854$rl1.116@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net>, 
mabden@sbc_global.net says...

> RE "how do you tell if there are footprints in your refrigerator?" is
> this another joke?
> I have heard this one: "how do you tell if there's an elephant is in
> your refrigerator" or something...
> The answer is "footprints in the peanut butter" but I originally heard
> it as footprints in the butter. I never could figure out why the
> elephant stomped on my butter. Peanut butter seems better because
> elephants like peanuts, but why would they leave footprints, instead of
> eating it all?

The joke is that elephants are rather too large to leave footprints in 
the peanut butter, or any other kind of butter.  

If you do have this problem, and you want to find the elephant, check 
whether he may have painted his balls red and hidden in a nearby cherry 
tree.

- Gerry Quinn

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