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05-16-2006, 08:35 AM
A tourist walks into a curio shop in San Francisco. Looking around at
>everything, he notices a very life like life-sized bronze statue of a
>rat. It has no price tag, but is so striking that he decides he must
>have it.
>
>He takes it to the owner and asks, "How much for the bronze rat?" The
>owner replies, "$12 for the rat and $100 for the story".
>
>The tourist gives the man $12 and says, "I'll just take the rat, you can
>keep the story."
>
>As he walks down the street carrying his bronze rat, he notices that a
>few real rats have crawled out of the alleys and sewers and begun
>following him down the street.
>
>This is disconcerting, and he begins walking faster. But within a couple
>of blocks, the herd of rats behind him has grown to hundreds, and they
>begin squealing. He begins to trot toward the Bay, looking around to see
>that the rats now number in the MILLIONS, and are squealing and coming
>toward him faster and faster.
>
>Concerned, even scared, he runs to the edge of the Bay, and throws the
>bronze rat as far out into the water as he can. Amazingly, the millions
>of rats all jump into the Bay after it and are all drowned.
>
>The man walks back to the curio shop. "Ah ha," says the owner, "you have
>come back for the story?"
>
>"No," says the man, "I came back to see if you have a bronze Mexican, a
>bronze Muslim cleric, a bronze Democrat & anything French."
>everything, he notices a very life like life-sized bronze statue of a
>rat. It has no price tag, but is so striking that he decides he must
>have it.
>
>He takes it to the owner and asks, "How much for the bronze rat?" The
>owner replies, "$12 for the rat and $100 for the story".
>
>The tourist gives the man $12 and says, "I'll just take the rat, you can
>keep the story."
>
>As he walks down the street carrying his bronze rat, he notices that a
>few real rats have crawled out of the alleys and sewers and begun
>following him down the street.
>
>This is disconcerting, and he begins walking faster. But within a couple
>of blocks, the herd of rats behind him has grown to hundreds, and they
>begin squealing. He begins to trot toward the Bay, looking around to see
>that the rats now number in the MILLIONS, and are squealing and coming
>toward him faster and faster.
>
>Concerned, even scared, he runs to the edge of the Bay, and throws the
>bronze rat as far out into the water as he can. Amazingly, the millions
>of rats all jump into the Bay after it and are all drowned.
>
>The man walks back to the curio shop. "Ah ha," says the owner, "you have
>come back for the story?"
>
>"No," says the man, "I came back to see if you have a bronze Mexican, a
>bronze Muslim cleric, a bronze Democrat & anything French."