~ New Keeper at
the Zoo ~
An excited man starts his new job at the zoo and is given
three tasks.
First is to clear the exotic fish pool of weeds. As he does
this, a huge fish jumps out and bites him.
To show who is boss he beats it to death with a spade.
Realizing his employer won't be best
pleased, he disposes of the fish by feeding it to the lions,
as lions will eat anything.
Moving on to the second job of clearing out the Chimp house,
he is attacked by the chimps that pelt him with coconuts.
He swipes at two chimps with a spade, killing them both.
What can he do? Feed them to the lions, he says to himself,
because lions eat anything. He hurls the
corpses into the lion enclosure.
He moves on to the last job, which is to collect honey from
the South American Bees. As soon as he starts he is attacked
by the bees.
He grabs the spade and smashes the bees to a pulp. By now
he knows what to do and throws them into the lion's cage
because lions eat
anything.
Later that day a new lion arrives at the zoo. He wanders up
to another lion and says "What's the food like here?"
The lions say, "Absolutely brilliant;
today we had Fish and Chimps with Mushy Bees."