Feb 112012
A woman called the zoo library one day and asked, “When a rhinoceros lies in the mud and then gets up and he has a ring around his body, how do you remove it?”
When she was told that the zoo didn’t remove the ring she said, “Oh, but you have to!” The librarian reminded her that rhinos are wild animals and since nobody removes the ring in the wild, neither does the zoo.
As it turned out, the woman worked at an advertising agency. One of their clients had come out with a new detergent and they were hoping to base a campaign on the slogan “Tough enough to remove the ring off a rhino.”