Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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Happy Hump Day
An ancient Babylonian general was once involved in a plot to overthrow the king. His plot included a number of followers in the upper ranks of the army. However, his plot was uncovered, and the king threw him in jail. The king sentenced him to death without a trial.
However, from the jail he was able to secretly contact his followers to arrange to escape, meet his followers, and attack the king's palace at night. So the night before his scheduled execution, the general managed to escape from prison. He fled to a ziggurat several kilometers away, where his followers would meet him. However, the ziggurat was one of several in the area, and he wasn't sure if his cohorts would find the right ziggurat. By this time it was twilight, so he lit a small fire and sent smoke signals to indicate in which structure he was hiding.
However, the king's loyal soldiers saw the smoke coming from the ziggurat, and came to arrest him before he could meet his followers. He was executed later that day.
The moral of the story? WARNING: The searching general has determined that smoking ziggurats can be extremely hazardous to your stealth.
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Comments (30)
There is a lot of eye rolling going on over here. I thought this was going to be some great moral lesson...
Haha!
What was the moral of the story again? :(
Should we file this one with Aesop's fables?
Just say no to smoking ziggurats!
damn. the end was rough. Execution. No soft words that lead up to it either. Had me in tears ;)
Ummm...ok.
Michael
That's a good moral...those ziggurats'll kill you! ba dum pum!
Lmao don't let the Truth get their hands on this...bahaha.
ROFL - I really love puns, and the worse they are the more I love them! This one was truly awful in a really great way!
@Papillon_Mom - great moral lessons on Wednesday? perish the thought. :P
@be_lie - hmmm....moral moral moral....
@CarmenDeBizet - oh, definitely....
@HumeTheKitch - indeed. now we just need ziggurat bans...heh.
@CrazyXBeautifulXDisaster - yeah, poor guy. :P
@TheSecretLifeOfPandas - yeppers! we should go after the big ziggurat companies! yaaayy!
@FallenReign - oh, my....that would be interesting indeed.
@saintvi - oh, yeah, the worst ones are the best....
@VaultESL - They might just get a new cause, and lo and behold, we'd be flooded with featured questions about smoking ziggurats. Haha that'd be interesting...
@FallenReign - that would, that would indeed....and think of the comedic potential.
@VaultESL - On a second thought, perhaps we should tell them about the hazards of smoking ziggurats...
...lol, admittedly.
@FallenReign - yes, lets!
Haha. That's a good one. :) You know, I think I actually like puns more than I thought I did. There was no eye roll this time, just a laugh. Or, maybe I'm getting used to them. Either way, this week's is good! ^_^ Do you ever make up any of these or do you just find them?
@musicisoxygen - I usually just find them. The awesome power of Google, you know. :P
@HumbleWalk - ooh, that mini reminds me vaguely of Gotham City. Nice.
ohhh jeezzzzz-and I thought humblewalk was bad
That ambulance was for my roommate as it turned out. He almost died and didn't because when he collapsed he woke my other roommate up who then called 911. He's diabetic and his blood sugar dropped extremely low.
@ReformedPatriot - yipes! is he going to be okay?
@k8tthelate - I must look in on him sometime...
@storyslut - indeed it is tragic. but still funny. :P
@Napalm13 - salut, fellow punner!