Why do impatient seedlings make terrible secret agents when they are hiding beneath the dark spring soil?
They always pop up at the wrong time
The humor relies on the literal meaning of sprouting, where a seed bursts through the earth unexpectedly. In espionage, blowing your cover is disastrous, just as a premature plant ruins its underground disguise by emerging too early.
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