a (very) short story i just read

[Keerin]

Is It Finally Time To tell The Story

Yes, it is finally time to tell the story about the sheep from that one island whose name is forgotten but which rhymes with Godive. There were too many sheep on this particular island, so some of them got on a boad and left for Spain. In Spain, hovever, they were not welcomed. Everyone in Spain, waiting by the shore for the boat to come in, had expected something more unusual than sheep. When the gangway was lowered and the sheep decended, the Spaniards said many things to them, the overall gist of which was "Go back to your island, sheep, and send some gila monsters or Komodo dragons". It is well known that the Spanish have always longed for gila monsters and Komodo dragons and perhaps some of those child size ancestors of Homo erectus everyone's talking about. So the sheep set sail again, this time looking for Franz Josef Land, which they'd heard had a balmy climate and universal heath insurace. But when they arrived, six months later, they found neither. Franz Josef Land was desolate, treeless and obsessed only with wireless internet access. So the ship set sail again, this time landing in Montana, which no one - no one but these seafaring sheep - realised had a deep sea port. They walked around Montana for a while, but found the people to be unfriendly and with very poor taste in music. Everywhere they went, they heard Thin Lizzy and Bachman Turner Overdrive, and though the sheep enjoyed much of the music by these bands, they actually preferred early King Crimson and later XTC. So they set sail again, this time looking for - you know what? Hold on a sec. Wait one damned second here. The author of this irrelivant narrative just woke up, momentarily, from a self-induced mental coma, and now something is worming into his conciousness. It couldn't be? Did that really happen? Did we really elect Bush again? Holy fucking shit. Screw the sheep and pity us Americans. Have we ever wanted pity before? We have not, but now we do. Shower us with pity as we cloak ourselves in shame.

Dave Eggers

[Hecate]

lol!!!

would love to know what happened to said sheep.........

barbecued at a texan ranch gathering perhaps?!

[Thanatos]

Originally Posted by kurgen

Is It Finally Time To tell The Story

Yes, it is finally time to tell the story about the sheep from that one island whose name is forgotten but which rhymes with Godive. There were too many sheep on this particular island, so some of them got on a boad and left for Spain. In Spain, hovever, they were not welcomed. Everyone in Spain, waiting by the shore for the boat to come in, had expected something more unusual than sheep. When the gangway was lowered and the sheep decended, the Spaniards said many things to them, the overall gist of which was "Go back to your island, sheep, and send some gila monsters or Komodo dragons". It is well known that the Spanish have always longed for gila monsters and Komodo dragons and perhaps some of those child size ancestors of Homo erectus everyone's talking about. So the sheep set sail again, this time looking for Franz Josef Land, which they'd heard had a balmy climate and universal heath insurace. But when they arrived, six months later, they found neither. Franz Josef Land was desolate, treeless and obsessed only with wireless internet access. So the ship set sail again, this time landing in Montana, which no one - no one but these seafaring sheep - realised had a deep sea port. They walked around Montana for a while, but found the people to be unfriendly and with very poor taste in music. Everywhere they went, they heard Thin Lizzy and Bachman Turner Overdrive, and though the sheep enjoyed much of the music by these bands, they actually preferred early King Crimson and later XTC. So they set sail again, this time looking for - you know what? Hold on a sec. Wait one damned second here. The author of this irrelivant narrative just woke up, momentarily, from a self-induced mental coma, and now something is worming into his conciousness. It couldn't be? Did that really happen? Did we really elect Bush again? Holy fucking shit. Screw the sheep and pity us Americans. Have we ever wanted pity before? We have not, but now we do. Shower us with pity as we cloak ourselves in shame.

Dave Eggers

heres an even shorter story.... america sucks. back in 18whogivesafuck all the murederers rapists and muggers were exiled to australia....... and all the dumbasses etc were sent to america. there they live an there they shall remain.

[Gypsey_Steve]

Originally Posted by Thanatos

heres an even shorter story.... america sucks. back in 18whogivesafuck all the murederers rapists and muggers were exiled to australia....... and all the dumbasses etc were sent to america. there they live an there they shall remain.

Nice story and very straight to the point. The first one was good aswell though.