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From: "mickey taylor" <taylor_mickey@hotmail.com>
To: <dpriese@worldnet.att.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 10:58 AM
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>  > One day an out-of-work mime is visiting the zoo and
>  > attempts to earn
>  >
>  > some money as a street performer. As soon as he
>  > starts to draw a
>  > crowd,
>  > a zoo keeper grabs him and drags him into his
>  > office. The zoo keeper
>  >
>  > explains to the mime that the zoo's most popular
>  > attraction, a
>  > gorilla,
>  > has died suddenly and the keeper fears that
>  > attendance at the zoo
>  > will
>  > fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as
>  > the gorilla until
>  > they
>  > can get another one. The mime accepts.
>  >
>  > So the next morning the mime puts on the gorilla
>  > suit and enters the
>  >
>  > cage before the crowd comes. He
>  > discovers that it's a great job. He can sleep all he
>  > wants, play and
>  >
>  > make fun of people, and he draws bigger crowds than
>  > he ever did as a
>  >
>  > mime.
>  >
>  > However, eventually the crowds tire of him and he
>  > tires of just
>  > swinging
>  > on tires. He begins to notice that the people are
>  > paying more
>  > attention
>  > to the lion in the cage next to his. Not wanting to
>  > lose the
>  > attention
>  > of his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage,
>  > crawls across a
>  > partition, and dangles from the top to the lion's
>  > cage.  Of course,
>  > this
>  > makes the lion furious, but the crowd loves it. At
>  > the end of the
>  > day
>  > the zoo keeper comes and gives the mime a raise for
>  > being such a
>  > good
>  > attraction. Well, this goes on for some time, the
>  > mime keeps
>  > taunting
>  > the lion, the crowds grow larger, and his salary
>  > keeps going up.
>  >
>  > Then one terrible day when he is dangling over the
>  > furious lion he
>  > slips
>  > and falls. The mime is terrified. The lion gathers
>  > itself and
>  > prepares
>  > to pounce. The mime is so scared that he begins to
>  > run round and
>  > round
>  > the cage with the lion close behind. Finally, the
>  > mime starts
>  > screaming
>  > and yelling, "Help, Help me!", but the lion is quick
>  > and pounces.
>  > The
>  > mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up
>  > at the angry
>  > lion
>  > and the lion says, "Shut up you idiot! Do you want
>  > to get us both
>  > fired?"
>  >
>  >
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