Day Three Hundred and Fifteen
“The Asses found themselves once so intolerably oppressed with cruel masters and heavy burdens, that they sent their ambassadors to Jupiter, with a petition for redress. Jupiter found the request unreasonable, and so gave them this answer, that humane society could not be preserved without carrying burdens some way of other: so that if they would but join and piss up a river, that the burdens which they now carried by land might be carried by water, they should be eased of that grievance. This set them all a pissing immediately, and humour is kept up to this very day, that whenever one ass pisses, the rest piss for company.”
Ummm…not reading that to my kids…
Aesop is over and I’m not sorry. I must confess to my first “skimming” of the year though. I didn’t fully read the “Reflections” following each fable. They were so dull, so often illogical and so long, that I just couldn’t take it after about page 150. Forgive me.
Wow, that explains everything!
I don’t remember that one from our tamer kid’s version of Aesop…..
November 12th, 2008 | #
I think they skipped that part in the live production.
How’s Friday morning again?
November 12th, 2008 | #
Friday morning is a blessed time. And yes, please do come over!
November 12th, 2008 | #
I have oft’ wondered how that particular pissing phenomenom came to be … so glad I know now. And you skimmed - GASP!!! I am shocked. And appalled. SHOCKED AND APPALLED I tell you.
I’m getting that look aren’t I?
Okay fine … I’m not really … especially considering I read … what … four of the fables?
November 12th, 2008 | #
Sounds like the last line of a ‘man walked into a bar’ joke…..
November 12th, 2008 | #
…that’s just weird…who thought of turning this into a kids book?
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