AnswerID: 208027 Submitted: Friday, Dec 01, 2006 at 16:57
Bonz (Vic)
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A tourist walked into a Brighton antique
shop.
After looking around for a while, he noticed a very life-like bronze
statue of a rat. It had no price tag, but it was so striking that he decided to
have it anyway. So he took it to the owner and said: "How much is this
bronze rat?"
The owner replied: "It is £12 for the rat, and £100 for the story."
Well, the tourist gave the man his £12 and said: "I'll just take the
rat, you can keep the story."
As he walked off down the street, he noticed that a few real rats had
crawled out of the sewers and begun following him. This was a little
disconcerting, so he started to walk a little faster.
But within a couple of blocks the swarm of rats had grown to hundreds,
and they were all squealing & screeching in a very menacing way.
He increased his speed & ran on towards the beach, and as he ran, he
looked behind him and saw the rats now numbered in their millions , and they
were running faster & faster. By now very concerned, he ran to the end of
Brighton Pier and threw the bronze rat far out into the water.
Amazingly, the millions of real rats jumped into the water after it and
were all drowned.
The man walked back to relate all this to the
shop owner, who said:
"Ah, you've come back for the story then!"
"No," said the tourist - "I came back to see if you've got a bronze
Muslim fundamentalist cleric, and anything French".
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