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42 lines
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There was this bloke who came all excited into the patents
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office with his latest invention, which he presents to the
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patents clerk:
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"But what's this!" says the clerk "An apple! I'm sorry sir
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but you have to realise that you can't patent an apple."
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"But taste it, taste it" says the apple patenter.
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The clerk tastes the apple "Just as I say, it's an apple,
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and you can't patent it".
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"But turn it around!" says the patenter "Turn it around!".
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The clerk does so, and takes a bite, and to his supprise, it
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tastes of pear.
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"Interesting" says the clerk "but to be honest, it hardly
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seems worth patenting. I mean, if you want apple you buy
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apple, and if you want pear you buy pear. Why patent this
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apple?"
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The patenter becomes rather dejected, lowers his head, and
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leaves. However, three months later he returns, once more in
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an exited state, and hands the clerk an apple.
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"Taste it, taste it" says the patenter.
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The clerk tasts the apple. "Apple!" says the clerk "If I'm
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not mistaken common Cox's Orange Pippin!"
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"But turn it around!" says the patenter "Turn it around!".
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The clerk does so, to find that the other side tasts of
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banana.
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"Very novel" says the clerk "But take my advice. Nobody
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wants an apple that tasts banana when they can buy the real
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thing. You really shouldn't trouble yourself."
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Dispondent and dejected, the patenter turns his back and
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leaves.
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However, three months later, he ruturns, now even more
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excited than before.
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"I've got it!" he exclames "This is the big one! I have
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finally developed the apple that tastes of WOMAN !
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Somewhat suspiciously, the clerk takes the apple and bites.
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"Yeeaaauurrghgh" he screams, coughing and spluttering,
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"Are you mad! It's horrible! My god it tastes of, tastes
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of... of ..SHIT!"
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"But turn it around!" says the patenter "Turn it around!".
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