Overheard in the Press (2)

For those of you who enjoy puns, here is another story, this time from Sandy Toksvig who related it in her column ‘Seven’ in the Sunday Telegraph last summer.

Two young men so enjoyed their fishing holiday beside a excellent trout brook that they made a vow to repeat the trip in twenty years’ time.

Two decades later they meet to try and find the nirvana of their youth. They search the woods, but for the life of them they cannot recall exactly where they had set up their tent all those years before. At last they reach a stream and one of the men shouts: ‘This is the place!’ ‘No, it’s not,’ says the other. ‘Yes, it is,’ says the first man, ‘I recognize the clover growing on the bank.’

The second man shakes his head and says, ‘Don’t be silly, you can’t tell a brook from its clover.’