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Comment by John Jubinsky on May 6, 2012 at 4:40pm

Joke - There existed a deep water port that was in a national historic district so there were a lot of novelty shops in the immediate area. A tourist was looking around in one and came across a bronze rat for sale. He didn’t think much of it at first but soon realized that he couldn’t get it off of his mind. He, therefore, took it to the proprietor and said that he wanted to purchase it. The proprietor answered: “Are you sure you don’t want to know the story that goes with it first?” The tourist replied that he did not and bought the bronze rat. He left the novelty shop and started walking toward the waterfront. Soon he got an eerie feeling. He turned around to discovered that a rat was following him. He thought it to be strange but kept walking at the same pace. The feeling became more eerie and he turned around again to discover that a hundred rats were following him. He became somewhat unnerved and started walking faster. This occurred several times until he discovered that ten thousand rats were following him. In a state of panic he began running toward the waterfront and all ten thousand rats chased him. Suddenly he found himself at the waterfront facing water that was fifty feet deep and he couldn’t swim. In shear horror he threw the bronze rat into the water and all ten thousand rats jumped in after it and drowned. He returned to the novelty shop. Upon seeing him enter the proprietor asked: “Now do you want to know the story that goes with that bronze rat?” The tourist answered: “No…..but do you have any bronze Christians?”.

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Comment by Patricia on May 5, 2012 at 10:08pm

Thanks Sk8eycat. I have a couple of Dan Barker's books which I got from amazon.ca so will check there. I also shop amazon.com if I can't get something here. Will also look in FFRF.

Comment by sk8eycat on May 5, 2012 at 7:23pm

You can buy it on the Freedom From Religion foundation web site...or maybe from Amazon.  FFRF doesn't charge shipping fees for orders over $5 (US)...I don't know what they charge to ship to Canada.

http://www.ffrf.org/shop/freethought-music/

If you click on the CD icon, you may get a link to listen to some of Dan Barker's music.  He's a great pop and jazz composer, and an even better pianist.

Comment by Patricia on May 5, 2012 at 6:58pm

No Sk8eycat...never heard of anything like that. I'm in a small Canadian city so we don't get things like that, & I wouldn't know where to look either. I'm a huge music fan so maybe you can lead me to it?????

Comment by sk8eycat on May 5, 2012 at 6:38pm

Patricia, do you have the CD that goes with that Steve Benson cartoon?  It's full of great "freethought" music...the title track is a tango that makes me want to dance!

Comment by Patricia on May 5, 2012 at 1:42pm

Comment by Sandi on May 5, 2012 at 5:59am

Comment by sk8eycat on May 4, 2012 at 11:32pm

MAD Magazine: So Shit Happens. What, me worry?

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