Subj : rules of this echo
To   : Alexander Koryagin
From : Anton Shepelev
Date : Sun Dec 09 2018 00:22:37

Alexander Koryagin:

AK> Well, once I have found the most stupid question asked
AK> on Earth -- to ask a drunken man why he had sat behind
AK> the wheel drunken. ;=)

That reminds me of an opposite occasion: an ingenious
question from a drunk man to a sober.  It happened in the
cusp season when late autumn yields to early winter and the
weather is damp, cold, murky, and depressing because there
is no snow yet to amend the early darkness, the barren trees
and bushes, and the general greyness of the world.  It is in
such mean weather that my father and his friend were
standing at a bus stop and shivering in the cold when a
drunk bedraggled man, probably a bum, accosted them in this
respectful manner: "O fathers!", said he, "what is the
time?", to which one them said it was eight. "Fathers!",
said the bedraggled man after a pause, "it is in the morning
or in the evening?"

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