The Donkey and the Elephant (A Fable) FUNNY!!!!

[politicallore]

You guys will love this!
http://texandemocrat.com/silly-tidbits/the-donkey-and-the-elephant-a-fable/

I laughed my arse off!

[Demeter]

1. Truly a Story For Our Times!

I've got to send this to my Fundie relations!

[tomreedtoon]

2. Although it is a very flawed fable.

He was right up to the point where the donkey starved to death, but he blew the whole ball game when he dragged God into it.

Fables don't involve divine intervention. They are supposed to illustrate that the laws of the universe - God's laws, if you are a believer - work in certain ways. God intervening and getting all Old Testament on the elephant is just like the right-wing evangelicals damning all gays to Hell.

It would have been better ended like this:

The elephant went to the stores of grass he had stolen from the donkey. Except he found it was all gone.

"What has happened to all the grass I legitimately stole from the donkey?" he wailed. Then the elephant saw a great number of cockroaches swarming across the parched, dry land of the forest.

"Thanks a lot," the voices of the cockroaches said in unison. "We have re-invested all your grass in derivatives and financial byproducts! Now we return to our home in Saudi Arabia! Allah thanks you, effendi!"

And the elephant could only watch as the rapidly-scurrying roaches high-tailed it to their Eastern fiefdoms, as he felt the first of many hunger pangs that would grow and grow until he died.

The End.

On edit: Fixed a missing "f" in the title. Aside from that, what do you guys think? An I a bigger Aesop-hole than the original writer, or what?

[tom_paine]

3. Well written ending.

[politicallore]

4. lol like it

[politicallore]

5. :)

up to the tops

[trthnd4jstc]

6. I think having God in it is interesting because of the way the Republicans place God into Rhetoric.

Sad Story, Donkey Died because he gave up his Grass to the Elephant, and the Elephant having no respect for the Donkey, lets the Donkey Starve. God gets upset with losing Donkey and makes Elephant aware of it. No problem with the Story. Let us hope that us Donkeys don't starve to death because of the Spiteful ways of the Elephants.

[politicallore]

7. That had to been the point of it