Okay, creative staff at Acme Marketing, we’ve been hired by the little town of Hamlin, in Germany. You remember the story of the Pied Piper of Hamlin, right?
Hundreds of years ago Hamlin was overrun with rats, so they hired the Pied Piper, who used fresh-baked pies to lead them away.
Huh? Of COURSE he lured them with pies! How do you think he got his name?
Anyhow, tourists are starting to lose interest, and next year is the story’s 725th anniversary. So, here’s my idea. We buy thousands of live rats, let ‘em loose in the town, and then get the actor Harry Hamlin to go there with some pies. He’ll escort them out of town with full Entertainment Tonight coverage! Brilliant?
What if the rats DON’T follow Harry and his warm pies? Um, Karl, I guess you better leave the engine running on our rented Mercedes.
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Above: World Pie Championship judge poses with two scotch pies in Dunfermline, Scotland in 2007 file photo. REUTERS/David Moir
Below: Actor Hamlin and wife actress Lisa Rinna in Los Angeles in 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Fred Prouser
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Rats are very smart and aim to please,so it would be very easy to train them to follow a person…Especially if said person fed them,cuddled them and played with them.
- Posted by MocaMy last pet rats could free range in the bedroom and bathroom for a few hours a day.When I’d call them,they would run to me. I’d tell them to get in the cage so I could serve them supper and they would.
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If Harry Hamlin showed up in my town with pies, I’d follow him! Yummy!
- Posted by DeeI recently saw a TV news segment that reported an upsurge in rats for real in Hamlin! They showed photos even. So, importing rats is not necessary. Here’s the story online: http://tinyurl.com/6gmnox
- Posted by VJI find it both surprising and sad that this makes news on a major website in a country where millions suffer or die every year because they don’t have enough food, let alone pies to eat.
Funny, isn’t it?
- Posted by JellyWheatJellyWheat, has it dawned on you that a blog on humour mught carry bits of news this “irrelevant” and whatever else you might wish to call this content? Not EVERYTHING you read has to be bleeding-heart, globally-responsible, environmentally-deploring, guilt-inducing, you know?
- Posted by MI agree with M, if you read the message at the top of the page it says Blog, this tends to mean someones personal hobby, not hard news, you come here to get a giggle, not learn about hard news. Go to the hard news portion of Reuters to get all the death, destruction, starvation, etc coverage you could possibly want. Some of us need a break from the harsh realities of the world.
- Posted by vjrosePenn (of Pennsylvania fame) had two aunts who used to bake and sell very cheap pies. They became so famous around the world for their cheap pies that an Englishman composed a famous musical in their honour. It was called “The Pie Rates of Penn’s Aunts.”
- Posted by MarionVery good!
- Posted by Robert Basler