[2642] in Humor
HUMOR: The Portrait
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sharalee M. Field)
Tue Feb 2 21:51:48 1999
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 15:53:18 -0500
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From: "Sharalee M. Field" <sharalee_field@harvard.edu>
>Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 22:10:03 -0800
>From: jokeaday@jokeaday.com (Joke A Day)
>
>The wealthy wife of a very successful Jewish businessman
>went to the portrait artist for her first sitting. The portrait,
>a gift for her husband. She explained to the artist what she wanted:
>"You should paint me like I am. These little wrinkles, you put
>them on your canvas. The lines under my eyes, the flab on my
>arms, the turn in my nose, and the mole on my cheek, they all
>stay....BUT on my hands you put lots of rings with big
>diamonds and emeralds and bright jewels. Around my neck
>you put chains of gold and diamonds. Do you understand?"
>
>The artist looked at her in earnest and asked why she should
>want such detail of real life in her physical appearance, but
>adorn herself with the phony jewelry.
>
>She replied: "When I die my husband will re-marry. The new
>wife, she should go crazy looking for the jewels".
>~~~~~~
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