[Grovenet] Bronze Rat

[Ed Davie]

Or Republican, as the case may be!
Ed


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick La Jeunesse" <dicklajeunesse at hotmail.com>
To: <grovenet at rdrop.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:35 PM
Subject: [Grovenet] Bronze Rat


> The following from a friend. ;-)
>
> Dick
>
>
> A woman walks into a curio shop in San Francisco. Looking around at the 
> exotica, she notices a very life-like, life-sized bronze statue of a rat. 
> It has no price tag, but is so striking she decides she must have it. She 
> takes it to the owner: "How much for the bronze rat?"
>
> "Twelve dollars for the rat, a hundred dollars for the story," says the 
> owner.
>
> The woman gives the shop-owner twelve dollars. "I'll just take the rat, 
> you can keep the story."
>
> As she walks down the street carrying his bronze rat, she notices that a 
> few real rats have crawled out of alleys and sewers, and begun following 
> her down the street. This is a bit disconcerting, so she begins walking a 
> little faster.
>
> Within a couple blocks, the group of rats behind her grows to over a 
> hundred, and they begin squealing. She starts to trot toward the Bay. She 
> takes a nervous look around and sees that the rats now number in  the 
> thousands maybe millions- and they are all squealing and coming toward her 
> faster and faster.
>
> Terrified, she runs to the edge of the Bay, and throws the bronze rat as 
> far out into the Bay as she can.
>
> Amazingly, the millions of rats all jump into the Bay after it, and are 
> all drowned.
>
> The woman walks back to the curio shop. "Ah ha," says the owner, "I'll bet 
> you have come back for the story?"
>
> "No," said the woman, "I came back to see if you have a bronze Democrat."
>
>
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