Speaking of the Ides: A farmer woke up one morning and there in his back yard he saw a humongous strawberry that had sprung up overnight. He decided that it must be worth a fortune, since it was several feet in diameter and several feet high, so he looked up in the yellow pages for someone to estimate the value of this strawberry. He found someone who showed up in a battered old pickup truck. The estimator went out into the back yard with the farmer and said, "I think this must be worth several thousand dollars." Just then the phone rang inside the farmhouse. It was the farmer's Aunt Agnes. Well, you know how Aunt Agnes loves to talk and talk, and it was a good 20 minutes before the farmer could get off the phone. He went out the back door, but the strawberry had vanished! Going around to the front, he could see the strawberry in the back of the pickup truck, which was kicking up dust as the "estimator" sped away. The farmer ran after the truck, shouting "What have you done? You've stolen my valuable strawberry!" The driver shouted back, "I've come to seize your berry, not to appraise it!"