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PLANT THE POTATOES
A woman wrote to her husband who was serving time in prison for armed robbery. “When is the best time to plant the potatoes?” she wrote. The husband wrote back, “Don’t dig in the potato patch now. That is where I hid all of my guns.” The prison mail was monitored, of course, and soon the potato patch in question was being dug up by a whole squad of policemen. But there were no guns to be found. Again, the wife wrote to her husband in prison: “They’ve dug up the whole potato patch,” she complained. Her imprisoned husband smugly wrote back, “The patch is now properly tilled. You may now plant the potatoes.”