Persistent Vegetative State...

We were cleaning out my former boss' office this week (I had her axed a few months ago) when we discovered that one of her plants had died. After my boss was axed, we tried as much as possible to maintain her plants but there were just too many of them. After I tossed out the dead poinsettia (which was at least seven years old), my new boss asked me what happened to it. I told her, "well, the thing was in a persistent vegetative state, so we stopped feeding it."