The Other Reindeer
The game show contestant was only 200 points behind the leader
and about to answer the final question - worth 500 points!
"To be today's champion," the show's smiling host intoned,
"name two of Santa's reindeer."
The contestant, a man in his early thirties, gave a sigh of relief,
gratified that he had drawn such an easy question.
"Rudolph!" he said confidently, "and, ...Olive!"
The studio audience started to applaud (like the little sign above
their heads said to do,) but the clapping quickly faded into
mumbling, and the confused host replied, "Yes, we'll accept
Rudolph, but could you please explain... 'Olive?!?'"
"You know," the man circled his hand forward impatiently
and began to sing, "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - had a very
shiny nose. And if you ever saw it, you would even say it glowed.
*Olive,* the other reindeer..."
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