Humor 9/14/97: What a Zoo!

Hi everyone,

I hope your weekend is going well. Welcome to my weekly humor email
distribution list, for all of you who are new.

This week's recommendation on a movie, CD, or something else, is a movie

called "Shall We Dance". It's in Japanese with English subtitles, and
it's about ballroom dancing. It's really good and I highly recommend
it. In fact, if you are in the Boston area, I think my roommate and I
are thinking of organizing a group of people to go ballroom dancing on
Sunday afternoons at MIT, right before volleyball. If you're
interesting in joining us, please let me know.

This week humor email comes to us from Vivian Chiang. Enjoy! -Josh.
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One day an out of work mime is visiting the zoo and attempt 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 crows 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 slip and
fails. 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 lion says "Shut up you
idiot! Do you want to get us both fired"