(Arab oral tradition)
An administrator, a painter, a poet and a critic were crossing the desert.
One night, to kill the time, they decided to describe the camel that was accompanying them.
The administrator went into the tent; in ten minutes he wrote an objective report on the animal’s importance.
The poet also took ten minutes to describe the animal’s nobility in beautiful verses.
In a few rapid strokes, the painter offered his friends a drawing.
Finally the critic entered the tent.
He came out two hours later, by which time they were all annoyed at how long he was taking.
“I tried to be quick, but I discovered flaws in the animal,” said the critic.
“It doesn’t run. It’s uncomfortable. It’s ugly.”
And he handed his friends a wad of pages with the title:
“The perfect camel, or how God should have made the camel.”
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Three mice are sitting at a table in a pretty rough neighborhood late at night trying to impress each other about how tough they are.
The first mouse turns to the second mouse and says, "When I see a mousetrap, I lie on my back and set it off with my foot. When the bar comes down, I catch it in my teeth, bench press it twenty times to work up an appetite, and then make off with the cheese."
The second mouse replies, "Yeah, well, when I see rat poison, I collect as much as I can, take it home, grind it up to a powder, and add it to my coffee each morning so I can get going for the rest of the day."
The first mouse and the second mouse then turn to the third mouse.
The third mouse lets out a long sigh and says to the first two, "I don't have time for this. I've got a date with the cat."
-Author Unknown-
Do these mice remind you of anyone?
