TALL TALE: Protection Insurance
Thomas_J_Epstein
Thom_cat, knowing 9 lives might not be enough to get him through
this alive, nevertheless pads along the bartop, telling this tale
of his own composition (must be a cat tale then, eh?):
Franklin opened a small fishmarket not far from a busy
seaport. His business grew and he prospered, until the
day his shop was entered by two seedy looking thugs. The
larger and uglier of the two threatened Franklin, "If
youse don't buy some o' dis Protection Insurance, you's
gonna be sorry." Franklin refused.
The next morning when he arrived at the shop, Franklin was
dismayed to find that someone entered his shop and spread
the coal tar usually used for water-sealing sea-side loading
platforms, all over his inventory. He had no choice, but to
replace it all. This sad scenario was re-enacted once
every week, but still, Franklin refused to pay the extortion.
Eventually Franklin got a mad-scientist friend (Henry Hyde)
to supply him with some pills which temporarily transform one
into a gorilla. After dark, Mr. Hyde would slip a pill under
Franklin's door. Franklin would then (though this hurt his
sore back) bend over, take the pill, transform into a gorilla,
and venture out to his shop; where in this guise he was able
to prevent the would-be tar smearers from doing harm.
After a month of this, Franklin's poor, sore back gave out. He
was too sore to bend over and pick up the pill, so he let it
go for one night. Alas, the next morning revealed that the
thugs had struck again. When he told Mr. Hyde that he had been
too sore to bend over for the pill, Hyde replied:
"An ape pill a day keeps the dock tar away.
-- Bend, Franklin."
John Vinson
Somebody give that cat a drink of warm milk... with some Elixer of Alurate in
it... (not TOO much) :-)
John
Wysard of Punformation
Sam Voeller
: Thom_cat, knowing 9 lives might not be enough to get him through
: this alive, nevertheless pads along the bartop, telling this tale
: of his own composition (must be a cat tale then, eh?):
<of course, a cat would come up with a tale involving fish, eh?>
: "An ape pill a day keeps the dock tar away.
: -- Bend, Franklin."
Sam, knowing that necessity is the mother of invention, ,
realizes that she needs to come up with an efficient way to lob peanuts
at Thom-cat.. Since early to bed and early to rise will make her healthy,
wealthy and wise, she logs off to go to bed so she can work on the problem.
--
Sam
to cats, people are just furniture that does tricks
sa...@netcom.com
Alan Flesch
> Sam, knowing that necessity is the mother of invention, ,
Seen in a Calvin and Hobbes Strip:
"Mothers are the necessity of invention."
Quest'r (aj)