In an effort to curb alcoholism, the FDA ordered bottling plants to insert a live bee into every 20th beer. This had two effects: first, it curbed alcoholism. Second, it made a multi-billionaire of Shelby R. Danville, whose business making scuba gear for bees had heretofore floundered. One day near the end of a financial quarter Shelby noticed that sales of SCUBEE®s had exceeded the number of bees bottled. Curious, he surveyed a wild hive and found the bees had acquired their own SCUBEE® apparatuses and were moving their hive underseas. Shelby set out in his yacht and was never seen on land again, although his cousin did receive a soggy letter by post that read, “When you see something called ‘reef honey’ on the market, invest.”
Clever clever bees!