A joke my mom sent me.

[wndycty]

A tourist walked into a Chinese curio shop in San Francisco. While looking

around at the exotic merchandise, he noticed a very lifelike, life-sized,

bronze statue of a rat. It had no price tag, but was so incredibly striking

the tourist decided he must have it. He took it to the old shop owner and

asked, "How much for the bronze rat?"



"Ahhh, you have chosen wisely! It is $12 for the rat, $100 for the story,"

said the wise old Chinaman.



The tourist quickly pulled out twelve dollars. "I'll just take the rat,

you can keep the story."



As he walked down the street carrying his bronze rat, the tourist noticed

that a few real rats had crawled out of the alleys and sewers and had begun

following him down the street. This was a bit disconcerting so he began

walking faster. A couple blocks later he looked behind him and saw to his

horror the herd of rats behind him had grown to hundreds, and they began

squealing. Sweating now, the tourist began to trot toward the bay.



Again, after a couple blocks, he looked around only to discover that the

rats now numbered in the MILLIONS, and were squealing and coming toward him

faster and faster. Terrified, he ran to the edge of the Bay and threw the

bronze rat as far as he could into the bay. Amazingly, the millions of rats

all jumped into the bay after the bronze rat, and were all drowned.



The man walked back to the curio shop in Chinatown. "Ahhh," said the

owner, "You have come back for story?"



"No sir," said the man, "I came back to see if you have a bronze

Republican."

[Killarney]

1. If only it were that easy.

;)

[doni_georgia]

2. ROFL - that's a good one n/t

[LiviaOlivia]

3. Thank you for the much needed chuckle!

eom

[northofdenali]

4. Forwarding to all and sundry.

What a nice dream! :)