Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Entry 066 | Story

Usually when I'm chatting online with friends and I get bored I'll ask them to tell me a story, and to make it a good one. Stat. Usual responses include I had a ham sandwich today/ I got no stories or *fart*. But on this occasion, I actually got a good story from a very creative one Mark Hauge:

this one time
there was this girl
and she was named nimdy karp
and she really liked fishing for carp
so everyone at school called her the fish lady
and she usually smelled bad
but one day
after school
she went to the fish market
and of course she went straight to the carp section
and one of the carp talked to her
and said "don't be afraid of your heritage, you are truly a karp"
and she's like no, my family came from carp island, home of the carps
then nimdy realized she switched her c and her k
and made the mistake of disagreeing with the talking carp
which actually meant she AGREED with the carp
so she went to carp island and asked father karp if her last name was really carp, and not karp
and then he says "nimdy... your true name is..."
MINDY PARK
you are actually park
and then mindy grew up and children climbed all over her and swang on her swing sets because that's what parks do and she lived happily ever after actually she wasn't alive she was a park, by the way this has nothing to do with you
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I have to say this is a simple story, but one of the best I've gotten from anyone, especially right on the spot. It reminds me old korean fables I used to hear as a child. And of course anything about myself is always a hoot. Expect an illustrated version of this tale to come soon.