posted 01-10-2005 11:44 PM         

Subject: My inventions

I've been to the U.S. Patent Office trying to register some
of my inventions.

I went to the main desk to sign in and the lady at the desk
had a form that had to filled out.

She wrote down my personal information and then asked me
what I had invented.

I said, "A folding bottle."

She said, "Okay, what do you call it?"

A Fottle"

"What else do you have?"

"A folding carton."

"What do you call it?" "A Farton."

She snickered and said, "Those are silly names for products
and one of them sounds kind of crude."

I was so upset by her comment that I grabbed the form and
left the office without telling her about my folding bucket.