Two men are trudging, lost, through the desert, nearly dead from dehydration. Suddenly, one of them sees something in the distance, "Look, look! I think I see someth- is that a bacon tree?" The other responds, "Obviously it must be a mirage ... but it looks so real ... I guess we might as well head for it." So they begin walking towards it, and as they get closer they can see it more and more clearly, "I think it really is a bacon tree" the one guy says to his friend. They soon are close enough that they can even smell the delicious bacon-y sent wafting in the air. Overcome with elation that they've finally found something they begin running towards it. Right as they almost reach it, an armed assassin leaps out from behind the bacon tree and shoots them both. As they lay there dying the one turns to the other and he gasps out, "that ... was no ... bacon tree .... It was a ham-bush.