THE TIP

A butcher from Lyons, France, used to delight in shocking people by sticking a salami in his trousers and exposing it. When his victim commented on the exposed protrusion, the butcher would take out a cleaver and lop off the tip. The joke went a too far one day, when, spotting a female friend he hadn't seen for years, he popped an extra large salami down his trousers. Leaving the tip sticking out, the butcher approached his friend who commented: "My God, you must be pleased to see me, you're huge!" Whereupon, the butcher replied: "Ah, I have no control over it." He took out his cleaver and lopped off the tip. His friend promptly had a heart attack and her husband successfully sued the butcher for several hundred thousand francs.

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