Run, Run as Fast as You Can!

I heard B. L. said he'd honor a truce s'long as we say "Sorry, Benny Old Bean, we were wrong to invade Iraq and you beat us fair 'n square." Sounds like he's been havin' a liquid lunch with Teddy the K. again, and anyone buyin' that crap is sittin' on the next barstool over.

Naturally there's lots of people out there who think this is a good idea, 'cause it's all Bush's fault, don'ya'know, and if he'd just stop smackin' everyone down we'd all be livin' in harmony. Like these two:

"Gohan and Aochan make strange bedfellows: one's a 3.5-inch dwarf hamster; the other is a yard-long rat snake.

"Zookeepers at Tokyo's Mutsugoro Okoku zoo presented the hamster — whose name is a tasty rice dish in Japanese — to Aochan as a snack in October, after the snake refused to eat frozen mice.

"But instead of indulging, Aochan decided to make friends with the furry rodent, according to keeper Kazuya Yamamoto. The pair have shared a cage since.

Sure, sure. Like frozen mice wouldn't melt in his mouth. Well, let me tell you, that rat snake is up to somethin'. Fat 'n happy Gohan is bein' lulled into a false truce. Just let the little sucker plump up a bit more and Osama—er—Aochan will be takin' the big chomp.

Which reminds me of another famous fictional truce.

"'Run, run as fast as you can! You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!'… The gingerbread man laughed and laughed, until he came to a river. 'Oh no!' he cried, 'They will catch me. How can I cross the river?'

"A sly fox came out from behind a tree. 'I can help you cross the river,' said the fox. 'Jump on to my tail and I will swim across.'

'You won't eat me, will you?' said the gingerbread man.

'Of course not,' said the fox. 'I just want to help.'"

You can figure out the rest. Unless you're a Demo-cat, then ya' better follow the link and read the whole story. And Gohan, here's a plan for you. Wouldn't put it off too long…

Gotta' say, though, the kids at the bottom of that picture freak me out.

posted by Harrison at 7:15 PM