WEEKLY EDITION OCTOBER 9, 2019
Joke of the Week
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The small town high school was putting on a production of The Lion King. The drama teacher wanted Mufasa's death scene to
be the highlight of the show. But with barely enough students in the production, and no financial help from the school, she
wasn't sure how to achieve a meaningful stampede of wildebeest in a rock canyon.
One kid suggested that some of his little brother's 4th grade class could help. The energetic ones could be the wildebeests
and the quieter ones could be dressed as rocks. It would solve the casting shortage and the little kids' families would
undoubtedly buy tickets to the show. It was a win-win, everyone agreed.
Over the next weeks everyone worked very hard on the show. The older kids learned their lines of course. The antsy 4th
graders practiced following the leader and thundering like wildebeests, and the more staid ones worked on sitting quietly
without moving, like rocks.
On opening night, everyone was excited. The dress rehearsal had gone perfectly, and the death scene was better than any
Broadway production. But you know what they say about perfect
dress rehearsals ...
During the performance - as the wildebeest herd started to
thunder in - the leader saw his parents in the audience. He lost
his concentration, got scared and ran to sit on their laps. As they
had been so carefully trained to do, the other 15 wildebeest
children swarmed after their leader into into the aisle, causing
tremendous confusion. Meanwhile, the children playing the
canyon rocks sat silently through it all.
Which all goes to show our elders really knew what they were
talking about when they said that in public, children should be
scene and not herd.
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