Cryptic Email riddle...

[Duke of Rat]

I usually don't play this stuff, but a buddy forwarded this to me since he couldn't figure it out. I don't have a clue, but I'm sure there's a hidden message in there someplace. Let me know what you guys make of it ( I might not want to know??)

I once knew this fellow named Sam. Sam was a very tall person, and his left arm was a little longer than his right. Sometimes he would read the back of a soap package in the store for hours at a time. This worried the store manager greatly. The manager would pace back and forth, up and down the aisle where Sam was reading the soap package. Once, the manager slipped on some pudding that had spilled onto the floor. Just as his head bounced off the cold hard floor, he noticed the word "farknus" on the isle marker sign. He went into a coma and never woke up. A doctor at the hospital the manager was in noticed the puzzled look frozen on manager's face. "That's odd", the doctor thought.

[Ethilrist]

"... why was this guy stocking soap in the farknus aisle?"

Well, if you look at it upside down, it spells "bgLkuns", which is a type of laundry soap commonly found along the Mediterranean.

Backwards, it's "sunkraf", which is a type of glue used to make those spinny kaleidoscope wind-mobile thingies.

Upside-down and backwards, it's incomprehensible gibberish.

[Larry Mudd]

Meh.

It's not so shaggy.

[Strinka]

he couldn't figure it out. Figure what out? No question or objective was ever posed.

Should we answer why the doctor thought it was odd?
What farknus means?
Why Sam reads soap boxes for hours at a time?

It's impossible to answer a question, when no question is ever asked.

[Duke of Rat]

Well, we were thinking it might be a message like "Don't slip in pudding watching a tall Sam read a sopa box" type saying, like "Don't count your sheep before their time" or "A rolling stone gathers no chickens".

[Dijon Warlock]

Purple monkey dishwasher?

[mattmorgan64]

A well known search engine revealed the following:

A man was sitting at home one evening, when the doorbell rang. When he answered the door, a 6 foot tall cockroach was standing there. The cockroach immediately punched him between the eyes and scampered off. The next evening, the man was sitting at home when the doorbell rang again. When he answered the door, the cockroach was there again. This time, it punched him, kicked him and karate chopped him before running away. The third evening, the man was sitting at home when the doorbell rang. When he answered the door, the cockroach was there yet again. It leapt at him and stabbed him several times before running off. The gravely injured man managed to crawl to the telephone and summoned an ambulance. He was rushed to intensive care, where they saved his life. The next morning, the doctor was doing his rounds. He asked the man what happened, so the man explained about the 6 foot cockroach's attacks, culminating in the near fatal stabbing. The doctor thought for a moment and said, "Yes, there's a nasty bug going around."

[pinkfreud]

If the manager went into a coma and never woke up, how would anyone know that he had seen the sign that said 'farknus'?

[dare_devil007_]

Purple monkey dishwasher?

:eek:
Hey, where'd you hear this expression and can you tell me where it came from? My school's grade-twelfth band's name is Purple Monkey Dishwasher and it kind of shocked me when I saw that.

[Dijon Warlock]

I heard it from a Simpson's episode: The PTA Disbands (http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F19.html)Edna: Good news, people!
[the other teachers cheer]
I'm happy to announce that another union has joined us in a
sympathy strike: the piano tuners' Local 412!
[the teachers look at one another, confused]
[a piano tuner stands outside a house with an out-of-tune
piano and looks smug]
Bart: [walking up] Now for Operation Strike-Make-Go-Longer.
[to teacher] You know, I heard Skinner say the teachers will
crack any minute.
[the teachers whisper it forward through the line]
Teacher: [to Edna] Skinner said the teachers will crack any minute
purple monkey dishwasher.
Edna: Well! We'll show him, especially for that "purple monkey
dishwasher" remark.
[everyone shouts their assent]
Don't know if they got it from somewhere else.

[SPOOFE]

Farknus was his sled!!!