SEEDS & WEEDS: The Funniest Things People Have Said About GARDENING

THE FUNNIEST THINGS PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT GARDENING 115
(d) Harmlessly repelled using the latest mail-order catalog electrical
fencing devices now on sale for only $379.95 plus $32 shipping and
handling.
(e) Oh, I don’t know, sort of cute. Aren’t they?
8. Catalogs are:
(a) Delivered to you periodically from Sotheby’s to keep you apprised of
items upon which you might wish to offer sealed bids, if they are not
imposing upon your time too awfully much.
(b) Easier than driving all the way up to Mr. Bean’s nice little store in that
quaint little town in, where is it? New Hampshire?
(c) Stuck in the Sunday newspaper with all those coupons that Grandma
likes to cut out and save.
(d) Probably the most wonderful invention of the twentieth century, aside
from, maybe, birth control and the microwave oven.
(e) A real pain in the neck. You can get fined for throwing them out in the
trash, for the luvva gawd.