Storytime

[paracelsvs]

The story I'm about to tell is not mine, but has been recounted to me by far greater storytellers than myself. I present it here in the hope that its wisdom will benefit the members of my humble audience

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Another story

[jwgh]

Once upon a time there were two little maggots who were brothers. They were seized with a desire to go out into the world and see what they could make of themselves, and so they set off their separate ways down the sidewalk

[pentomino]

Is that some kind of crack?

Yet another parable

[doctroid]

A newlywed husband observed his wife making a roast one day, and noticed she cut about 1" of meat off the end of the roast before putting it in the roasting pan. When he asked why, she said, "I don't know, that's how my mom taught me to do it. Always cut off an inch before you put it in the pan, she told me. But I don't know why."

So the next time they went to visit the wife's mother, they asked her. "I don't know why," she told them, "That's how my mother taught me to do it. Try asking her."

So a few weeks later they visit the wife's grandmother and ask her, "Do you cut an inch off the end of a roast before cooking it?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Because my roasting pan is very small."