The Nonsense Thread

A fisherman sits on the warm, white sand of a beach. His fishing rod, sitting unmaned, bobbed in the clear, blue water.

A buisiness man walks down the beach looking to relieve stress when we sees the fisherman. Confused that he isn't working harder to provide for is family, the buisiness man walks up to the fisherman.

"You should really try harder," said the buisiness man.

"What would my reward be?" asked the fisherman.

"You could catch much more fish."

"Then what would my reward be?"

"You could earn more money."

"Then what would my reward be?"

"Well, you could buy a net and catch even more fish."

"Then what would my reward be?"

"You could buy a boat and catch even more fish!" said the buisiness man, slightly annoyed.

"Then what would my reward be?"

"You could hire a crew to catch the fish for you!" The buisiness man was now extremely annoyed by the simple fisherman's constant questions.

"Then what would my reward be?" the fisherman asked, again.

"You could buy a whole fleet of fishing boats and start a frickin world-wide fishing empire!!"

"Then what would my reward be?"

"You could get super rich and sit and relax on this beautiful beach every day and never have to work another day in your life again!!!!" the buisiness man screamed.

"Well what do you think I'm doing right now?" asked the fisherman.
 
I don't get it.

Is the moral of the story that the fisherman is a lazy bum who doesn't care about his family? Or is it that one must never assume that someone is a bum, because they just could be a retired millionaire?
 
I don't get it.

Is the moral of the story that the fisherman is a lazy bum who doesn't care about his family? Or is it that one must never assume that someone is a bum, because they just could be a retired millionaire?

Don't assume. The fisherman is really super rich and that's why he's on the beach.
This assumption thing leads into another thing I wanted to post. It's something my Geometry teacher told our class and something I'll do best to follow.

"You never assume. What do we say when it comes to assuming? When you assume, you make an ass(out of)-u(and)-me."
 
"You never assume. What do we say when it comes to assuming? When you assume, you make an ass(out of)-u(and)-me."

Wow. I've never heard that before. Such fantastic wordplay.

Wow.

:)
 
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, who, squatting, held his heart in his hand and ate of it.
I asked him "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter," he answered, "but I like it because it is bitter and it is my heart"




I saw that scrawled on the wall of a backpackers in Kuranda several years ago and I liked it. There was also a scrawl that said "Kill Israel"......
 
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, who, squatting, held his heart in his hand and ate of it.
I asked him "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter," he answered, "but I like it because it is bitter and it is my heart"




I saw that scrawled on the wall of a backpackers in Kuranda several years ago and I liked it. There was also a scrawl that said "Kill Israel"......

You know, when I was in high school, I had to write a poem for literature and I "wrote". It was from a Stephen King novel I had recently read, and he himself did not write it I believe. I think that it was the firsthand last time that I plagiarised something. :D
 
I saw that scrawled on the wall of a backpackers in Kuranda several years ago and I liked it. There was also a scrawl that said "Kill Israel"......

Better you than me. :p I don't plan on going there anytime soon.

:p

Hix
 
Never know. Could've been a hobo. Or DavidBrown in a maniacal rage searching desperately for another cookie.

Good grief, you are all obviously on a sugar high (or some other kind that I don't want to know about). No cookies for any of you.
 
You know, when I was in high school, I had to write a poem for literature and I "wrote". It was from a Stephen King novel I had recently read, and he himself did not write it I believe. I think that it was the firsthand last time that I plagiarised something. :D
I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying the text from the Kuranda wall was from a Steven King book? I am confused.
 
I don't get it.

Is the moral of the story that the fisherman is a lazy bum who doesn't care about his family? Or is it that one must never assume that someone is a bum, because they just could be a retired millionaire?

I thought the moral was that the fisherman didn't need to do all that hard work because he is already enjoying the beach and not worrying about anything and he didn't have to go through all the effort to actually work for anything.
 
I thought the moral was that the fisherman didn't need to do all that hard work because he is already enjoying the beach and not worrying about anything and he didn't have to go through all the effort to actually work for anything.
“Maybe there is no moral. Maybe it's just a bunch of stuff that happened.”
 
actually if you read the post again, it says the fishing rod is sitting unattended in the water. The "fisherman" may not have even been a fisherman. So what happened to the real fisherman!?
 
I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying the text from the Kuranda wall was from a Steven King book? I am confused.

Wow! I too am confused! I typed that on my tiny iPhone screen, as I am now, and it is difficult to proof read. Also, it auto corrected a lot of stuff. So the punctuation was off, and the word was not supposed to "firsthand" but rather "first and".

Anyway, the poem featured in a Stephen King novel, but was written by Stephen Crane. I plagiarised the poem in high school because I had just read the novel and loved the poem. :D
 
Oh and I am not suggesting that Stephen stole the poem from the graffiti in kuranda, but the other way around.
 
Wow. I've never heard that before. Such fantastic wordplay.

Wow.

:)

He is a very funny teacher. His nickname is 'Chips' but all he'll tell us is that he did a bad thing in high school with wood chips. My school has a very interesting faculty.:)
 
You know, when I was in high school, I had to write a poem for literature and I "wrote". It was from a Stephen King novel I had recently read, and he himself did not write it I believe. I think that it was the firsthand last time that I plagiarised something. :D

Lucky for you, you didn't have to submitt everything you write to this website.
Turnitin : Leading Plagiarism Checker, Online Grading and Peer Review
In my school, if you don't submitt it here, you don't get any credit.
 
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