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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (37454)	6/30/2005 11:26:39 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

A tourist walked into a curio shop in San Francisco. Looking around at the exotica, he noticed a very life-like life-sized bronze statue of a rat. It had no price tag but was so striking he decided he must have it. He took it to the owner: "How much for the bronze rat?" "Twelve dollars for the rat, one hundred dollars for the story", said the storekeeper. The tourist gave the owner $12. "I'll just take the rat, you can keep the story." As he walked down he street carrying his bronze rat, he noticed that a few real rats had crawled out of the alleys and sewers and begun following him down the street. This was disconcerting; he began walking faster. But within a couple of blocks the herd of rats behind him had grown to hundreds, and they began squealing. He began to trot toward the Bay, looking around to see that the rats now numbered in the MILLIONS and were squealing and coming towards him faster and faster. Concerned, even scared, he ran to the edge of the Bay, and threw the bronze rat as far out into the Bay as he could. Amazingly, the millions of rats jumped into the Bay after it and were all drowned. The man went back to the owner of the curio shop. "Ah ha," said the owner, "You have come back for the story?" "No," said the man, "I came back to see if you have a bronze Democrat."