Quoting from Missing Links: > HUMOR: Your editor was bemoaning the lack of fresh seasonable > material, when Joan Young came to the rescue with this: > > There is always that joke about the drunken men > going home from a pub late on Halloween night, > telling ghost stories as they went, and taking > the shortcut through the old cemetery. In front > of them they hear TAP TAP TAP and they see this > spooky figure hammering away at a stone, but they > assume it is just the caretaker working late -- > until -- the figure turns toward them and says: > "Danged fools! They didn't spell my name right!" > > The old jokes are the best jokes. > article: > > Previously published in MISSING LINKS, Vol. 7, No. 43, > 29 October 2002 http://www.petuniapress.com > > * * * Happy Halloween! Hanneli