Thanks to Pat & Sue for sharing this joke with us.
A tourist walked into a curio shop in San
Francisco.
Looking around at the exotic, he noticed a very lifelike, life-sized bronze
statue of a rat.
It had no price tag but was so striking he decided he must have it.
He took it up to the owner, "How much for the bronze rat?"
"Twelve dollars for the rat. One hundred dollars for the story,"
said the owner.
The tourist gave the man twelve dollars. "I'll just take the rat. You can
keep the story."
As he walked down the street carrying his bronze rat, he noticed that a few
real rats had crawled out of the alleys and sewers and began following him
down the street.
This was disconcerting; he began walking faster. But within a couple
blocks, the herd of rats behind him had grown to hundreds, and they began
squealing.
He began to trot toward the bay, looking around to see that the rats now
numbered in the MILLIONS, and were squealing and coming toward him fast.
Scared, he ran to the edge of the bay and threw the bronze rat as far out
into the bay as he could.
Amazingly, the millions of rats all jumped into the bay after it, and
drowned.
The man walked back to the curio shop. "Aha," said the owner, "you have
come back for the story?"
"No," said the man. "I came back to see if you have a Bronze Democrat.
