Back in the '70s, days of conspicuous (ahem) consumption,
Hugh Hefner
was showing a friend around the Playboy Mansion. At one
point, Hefner
turned to his friend, and said, "Did you ever hear this
joke? A woman
receives flowers from her boyfriend. She turns to her
friend, and
says, `Oh, great. Now I'll have to spend the whole
weekend with my
legs in the air.' `Why?' says her friend. `Don't you
have a vase?'"
They laugh, and then Hefner opens a door with a flourish.
Inside,
women are reclining on couches, naked as jaybirds, with
flowers
protruding from their vaginas. Hefner and his friend have
another
laugh and are flirting with the girls when suddenly, from
the next
room, there is a bloodcurdling shriek!
"What was that?" starts Hefner's friend.
"Oh, probably just the umbrella stand..."
