This is by Glenn Gardner [steed@netcom.ca]. It was published on alt.humor.puns and is posted here with permission.

I saw some strange goings on in the city today. A group of sterile monks in white robes were circling a large urn containing flowers, chanting, raising their hands, bowing to the urn, and performing a kind of ritual on one young member of the group. It appeared to be some sort of vase sect to me.

(© Glenn Gardner 2000)