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Fw: Rats

hi.


somebody was looking for the story of the little scampering rat on the OtR
publications.

well, this isn't it.   but its timing is pretty good, considering you were
just recently asking for an explanation.

jg

scroll down.....
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To: joker at joker_org <joker at joker_org>
Date: Thursday, March 04, 1999 7:05 AM
Subject: Rats


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> A tourist wanders into a back-alley antique shop in San
> Francisco's Chinatown.  Picking through the objects on display he
> discovers a detailed bronze sculpture of a rat.  The sculpture is
> so interesting and unique that he picks it up and asks the shop
> owner the price.
>
> "Twelve dollars for the rat, sir," says the shop owner, "and an
> extra thousand for the story behind it."
>
> "At that price, you can keep the story, old man," he replies,
> "but I'll take the bronze rat."
>
> The transaction complete, the tourist leaves the store with the
> bronze rat under his arm. As he crosses the street in front of
> the store, two live rats emerge from a sewer drain and fall into
> step behind him.
>
> Nervously looking over his shoulder, he begins to walk faster,
> but every time he passes another sewer, more rats come out and
> follow him.  By the time he's walked two blocks, at least a
> hundred rats are at his heels, and people begin to point and
> shout. He walks even faster, and soon breaks into a trot as
> multitudes of rats swarm from sewers, basements, vacant lots, and
> abandoned cars... following him.
>
> Rats by the thousands are at his heels, and as he sees the
> waterfront at the bottom of the hill he panics and starts to run
> full tilt.
>
> No matter how fast he runs, the  rats keep up, squealing
> hideously now not just thousands but  millions, so that by the
> time he comes racing to the water's edge a trail of  rats twelve
> blocks long is behind him.
>
> Making a mighty leap, he  jumps up onto a lamp post, grasping it
> with one arm,  while he hurls the bronze rat into San Francisco
> Bay as far as he can throw  it.
>
> Pulling his legs up and clinging to the post, he watches in
> amazement as the seething tide of rats surges over the breakwater
> into the sea, where they drown.
>
> Shaken and mumbling, he makes his way back to the antique shop.
>
> "Ah sir, you've come back for the story,"  says the owner.
>
> "No," says the tourist,  "I was just hoping you had a bronze
> sculpture of a lawyer "
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> Thanks to Catweasel, who has evidently had some bad experiences
> with lawyers!
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