Moral : It is better to have the ring of freedom in your ears than in your nose.

[kpete]

The Bears
and the Monkeys
(from Further Fables for Our Time)

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So each bear was made to wear a collar, and the collars were linked together with chains, and Monkey Do put a ring in the lead bear's nose, and a chain on the lead bear's ring. "Now you are free to do what I tell you to do," said Monkey Do.

"Now you are free to say what I want you to say," said Monkey Say. "By sparing you the burden of electing your leaders, we save you from the dangers of choice. No more secret ballots, everything open and aboveboard."

For a long time the bears submitted to the New Liberation, and chanted the slogan the monkeys had taught them: "Why stand on your own two feet when you can stand on ours?"

Then one day they broke the chains of their new freedom and found their way back to the deep forest and began playing leap-bear again and stealing honey and buns from the nearby cottages. And their laughter and gaiety rang through the forest, and birds that had ceased singing began singing again, and all the sounds of the earth were like music.


Moral : It is better to have the ring of freedom in your ears than in your nose.

more:
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2010/02/thurber-tonight-part-4-of-bloodhound.html

[midnight]

1. Better to sing and eat honey than listen to monkeys....

This is a great story....

[Electric Monk]

2. Bears!!1!

[Solly Mack]

3. k/r