Harry Pollard wrote:
[snip]ou know, my favorite story concerns the scorpion who crossing the
> Arabian desert comes to a river. He asks a nearby frog to take him across.
> "No" says the frog. "You would sting me if I let you get close."
>
> "If I did that," said the scorpion, "we would both drown." That seemed
> reasonable to the frog. The scorpion climbed aboard and halfway across the
> river, he stung the frog. Screamed the frog "Why did you do that?"
>
> Said the scorpion with a shrug, "It's the Middle East."
[snip]
I propose the scorpion said, instead: "Because I hate you more than
I like the life I feel you have imposed on me: Actually, I don't
like that life at all, and there's a chance I'll get a better
one in Heaven, so I don't see where there's any difficulty
choosing. No more frog-world! Onward and upward to the 50 virgins
awaiting me in Heaven! I put my trust in God!"
\brad mccormick
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