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6.8.03
A story (Score:5, Funny)
by Jeremi (14640) on Wednesday August 06, @07:53PM (#6629878) (http://www.lcscanada.com/jaf) Once upon a time there was a village in the countryside. It was a pleasant enough village, but there was no convenient source of running water. In order to get a drink of water, the villagers had to walk five miles to the nearest river, which was very inconvenient. So one day all the villagers got together and decided to build a water pipeline from the river to the village. Everybody pitched in, from the richest to the poorest. After several years of hard work, the pipeline was finished. Now everybody in the village could enjoy fresh, clean water any time they wanted, without having to trudge five miles. Everybody was happy. Then, one day, one of the villagers announced that certain pieces of the pipeline were his, and had been used without his permission. Because of that, he said, the pipeline belonged to him, and anybody who wanted to get water from it had to pay him ten dollars for each bucket of water they took from the pipeline. The villagers offered to replace his stolen pipe sections with their own spare sections, and return the stolen ones to him, but the villager didn't want that -- in fact, he refused to even tell the other villagers which sections were the stolen ones. "Just pay me the money you owe me", he said, "and I'll let you use my pipeline." The villagers gathered together again, to determine what to do about this new problem. After several minutes of debate, a plan was devised. That night, they went to the villager's house with torches and pitchforks, burned it to the ground, and fed the villager to the stray dogs. And they all lived happily ever after. The End. [ Reply to This ] 
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