The Turtle Society

Next Friday, May 23rd, is World Turtle Day. Presumably this is when the little critters leave their hatcheries on the beach and waddle down to the surf if not done in by dune buggies. Some years ago I had dinner with clients at Johnny Lattner's restaurant in Chicago. It was a huge amphitheater of a room and a group calling themselves The Turtle Society was having their induction meeting in this very public arena. They announced that the Turtle was a very clean minded individual and to be included in the group an applicant must answer such as the following: What does a man do standing up, that a woman does sitting down and a dog does on three legs? If you didn't answer "shake hands" then you couldn't be accepted in their Society. We canvassed our table members and it appeared that none of us would be swimming with turtles that night.
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