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KingOfStickers
Since: Jul, 2014
This has been told verbally (or printed in magazines) as a joke, and as a Dave Berg "The Lighter Side" comic in MAD Magazine. I would give a cosmic gold brick to learn what was the original source for this.
Someone has been struggling with a problem at work and is still thinking about it while going to sleep. A few hours later, Eureka! they wake up with the perfect answer. It's so profound it'll solve everything! They write it down so they won't forget.
So then they get up in the morning and look at the note and it says "five dollar gardener." (Or in the Dave Berg cartoon, it was complete gibberish).
Edited by CaptEquinox