'No' came the answer, 'I'm a frayed knot.'
"Here's the box. Here's the hole. (This time he draws a zig-zag line
across the hole and he does not draw a circle for the cheese.) After completing
the zig-zag line, the slow witted man proclaims, "and here's the saw blade."
The patent officer notices the design and the fact that that ther is
no cheese. He asks the slow witted man, "Where's the cheese." "Ah-ha,"
says the slow witted man.
The shopkeeper replies, "That is not my dog!"
They ran out of beer before they were ready to quit drinking, so they
decided one of them should go out for more beer.
The snail said, "I'd go, but I'm kind of slow. Besides, Grasshopper, this is your neighborhood so you know where to go."
The grasshopper said, "I don't mind going, but my hopping will shake up the beer and we'll get sprayed every time we open one."
So they decided to send the centipede; and the grasshopper explained how to get to the nearest liquor store.