From Harold Clark Via My Spice , this was published on the groaners listserv. The author is not known. This is especially dedicated to the academicians on my mailing list, but not me, of course.

A family owned a tomcat, of whom it was normally quite fond.

Quite often, however, the cat would get out at night and go around the neighbourhood howling and screeching and meowing so loudly that people would complain. So the family took the tom to … Read the rest...