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Getting a job at the zoo!
One day, a mime came
visiting the zoo and attempts to earn some money as a street performer.
As soon as he starts to draw a crowd, the 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, 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 the offer.
So, the next morning,
before the crowd arrives, the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters
the cage. He discovers that it's a great job. He can sleep all he wants,
play and make fun of people, and he draws larger crowds than he ever did
as a mime on the street. However, eventually the crowd tires of him, and
he tires of just swinging on auto tires. He notices that the people are
paying more attention to the lion in the next cage. 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 of 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 crowd grows larger, and his salary keeps going
up. Then, one day, when he is dangling over the top of the lion's cage,
he slips and falls. The mime is terrified. The lion raises himself up
and prepares to pounce. The mime is so scared that he begins to run
around the cage with the lion in hot pursuit.
Finally, the mime starts
screaming, "Help! Help me!" The lion is quick and pounces. The
mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion.
The lion says, "Shut up, you idiot, or we'll both lose our
jobs!"
— Culled from the
Net by Sunil Sharma
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