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- From: jf@threel.co.uk (John Fisher)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Bear Crap
- Message-ID: <2b10f2a5@ThreeL.co.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 15:03:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.235841.38769@slate.mines.colorado.edu>,
- htran@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Harry Tran) writes:
-
- > "Hey, rabbit! When you take a dump, does the shit stick to your
- > fur?"
- > "Well no," replied the rabbit, "I don't have that problem."
- > "Good.", snarled the bear, who reached behind him, scooped up
- > the rabbit with his paw, wiped his ass with it and flung it
- > back down the hole.
-
- Myuh, excuse me for moment, if you will.
-
- I am, I confess, a little perplexed. Clearly, the bear's
- wiping of his arse had as its objective the removal of the
- shit from that region. Yet, if shit does not stick to the
- rabbit's fur, what use would it be for that purpose? It
- would appear, would it not, that the rabbit's pelt would
- merely skid over the shit deposits, leaving them in situ.
- It is possible, I feel certain some will point out, that the
- bear relies upon the greater adhesiveness of his own shit
- vis-a-vis the rabbit's; in which case, I fear, the relevance
- of the parable escapes me.
-
- It is, of course, possible that my primary premiss is wrong,
- and that the bear does *not*, in fact, intend or wish to
- remove the shit from his arse; that he wishes rather to
- consolidate the deposit, as it were, and employed the rabbit
- to effect this *precisely*because* of its fur's lack of
- adhesiveness. In which case, although the parable makes
- sense, the, aha! yes!, the sense does not make sense, one
- might say. Yes.
-
- I would therefore suggest that the parable should be, let
- us say, retold as follows:
-
- > "Hey, rabbit! When you take a dump, does the shit stick to your
- > fur?"
- # "I fear that is indeed the case," replied the rabbit. "It
- # is a cause of not inconsiderable annoyance, I admit."
- > "Good.", snarled the bear, who reached behind him, scooped up
- > the rabbit with his paw, wiped his ass with it and flung it
- > back down the hole.
-
- --John
-