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Sun, 5 Jan 1997 05:36:04 +0000
Hiya People...
Here's a fun tale of a mime who works in a zoo...
Wishes & Dreams...
- ANDREA
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------- Forwarded foolishness follows -------
One day an out of work mime is visiting the zoo and attempting to earn
some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd,
a zoo keeper grabs him and drags him into his office.
The zoo keeper explains to the mime that the zoo's most popular
attraction, a gorilla, has died suddenly and the keeper fears that
attendance at the zoo will fall off.
He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla until they can get
another one. The mime accepts.
So the next morning the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the
cage before crowd comes. He discovers that it's a great job. He can
sleep all he wants, play and make fun of people and he draws bigger
crowds than he ever did as a mime.
However, eventually the crowds tire of him and he tires of just swinging
on tires.
He begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the
lion in the cage next to his. Not wanting to lose the attention of his
audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition,
and dangles from the top to the lion's cage.
Of course, this makes the lion furious, but the crowd loves it.
At the end of the day the zoo keeper comes and gives the mime a raise
for being such a good attraction.
Well, this goes on for some time, the mime keeps taunting the lion, the
crowds grow larger, and his salary keeps going up.
Then one terrible day when he is dangling over the furious lion he slips
and falls. The mime is terrified.
The lion gathers itself and prepares to pounce.
The mime is so scared that he begins to run round and round the cage
with the lion close behind.
Finally, the mime starts screaming and yelling, "Help, Help me!", but
the lion is quick and pounces.
The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry
lion and the lion says, "Shut up you idiot! Do you want to get us both
fired?"