The Ocelot and the Sparrow

One day an ocelot was skulking through the shrubbery along the edge of a quiet suburban street, having escaped a few days ago from a nearby zoo. The ocelot hadn't found anything to eat since its escape, and was becoming very hungry.

While the ocelot waited for an opportunity to dart unseen from one yard to the next, a sparrow landed on the ground a few feet away. The ocelot readied to pounce on the very tasty looking sparrow when suddenly the sparrow spoke, freezing the ocelot in his tracks.

Since this was a European swallow, not an African swallow, it was migratory. That's not relevant to this particular fable, however.

The sparrow said, "The unemployment benefits you fought so hard against are one of the best forms of economic stimulus available. And if you really cared about the deficit, you wouldn't be complaining so much about the Bush tax cuts being allowed to expire."

The ocelot was stunned by these words, mostly because he'd never heard a bird make more than unintelligible tweets and chirps, and because he himself usually didn't have the linguistic capacity for this sort of discussion. The sparrow's presumptuousness was even more startling, however, and rather offensive. Much to his own amazement, the ocelot somehow managed to reply, "You seem to have mistaken me for a Republican. I'm an ocelot. Not a very political one at that."

The sparrow said, "An ocelot? Leopardus pardalis? Those are known to eat birds, aren't they?"

The ocelot replied, "So are Republicans. What's your point?"

"My point?", said the sparrow, "Watch this!"

The sparrow pushed off gracefully into the air, never to be seen by the ocelot again.

Two days later the ocelot, so weak it was unable to resist, was picked up and taken in by a crazy old woman with fifteen cats. Not being particularly domesticated, however, the ocelot took to tearing up the carpeting and spraying the furniture. The old woman had had just about enough of this unruly behavior when a 500-kilometer wide asteroid struck the planet, superheating the atmosphere, boiling away the oceans, and melting the crust of the earth a depth sufficient for killing off even the most hardy and reclusive bacteria.

DADT was finally ended.

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...or, as some may prefer...

:wtf:



"If you can't leave 'em laughing, leave them wondering what the hell you meant"... is that it?

It worked...:yoiks:

Moral - What's the point?(of anything in an imploding universe)

I LOVED it! Kudos! K&R

Was the asteroid a repub?

There is no spoon.