Apr 17, 2008 | 9:19 AM
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The teacher gave her fifth grade class an assignment...Get their parents
> to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it.
>
> The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their
> stories.
>
> Ashley said, "My father's a farmer and we have a lot of egg-laying hens.
> One time we were taking our eggs to market in a basket on the front seat
> of the car when we hit a big bump in the road and all the eggs went
> flying and broke and made a mess."
>
> "What's the moral of the story?" asked the teacher.
>
> "Don't put all your eggs in one basket!"
>
> "Very good," said the teacher.
>
> Next little Sarah raised her hand and said, "Our family are farmers too.
> But we raise chickens for the meat market. We had a dozen eggs one
> time, but when they hatched we only got ten live chicks, and the moral
> to this story is, "don't count your chickens before they're hatched."
>
> "That was a fine story Sarah.
>
> Michael, do you have a story to share?"
>
> "Yes, my daddy told me this story about my Aunt Karen. Aunt Karen was a
> flight engineer in the Gulf War and her plane was hit. She had to bail
> out over enemy territory and all she had was a bottle of whisky, a
> machine gun and a machete.
>
> She drank the whisky on the way down so it wouldn't break and then she
> landed right in the middle of 100 enemy troops.
>
> She killed seventy of them with the machine gun until she ran out of
> bullets.
>
> Then she killed twenty more with the machete until the blade broke.
> Then she killed the last ten with her bare hands."
>
> "Good heavens," said the horrified teacher, "what kind of moral did your
> daddy tell you from that horrible story?"
>
> "Stay the BLEEP away from Aunt Karen when she's been drinking