A wealthy old lady decides to go on a photo safari inAfrica, taking her faithful aged poodle named Cuddles, along for the company.



One day the poodle starts chasing butterflies and before long, Cuddles discovers that he's lost. Wandering about, he notices a leopard heading rapidly in his direction with the intention of having lunch.





The old poodle thinks, "Oh, oh! I'm in deep doo-doo now!" Noticing some bones on the ground close by, he immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat. Just as the leopard is about to leap the old poodle exclaims loudly, "Boy, that was one delicious leopard! I wonder if there are any more around here?"



Hearing this, the young leopard halts his attack in mid-strike, a look of terror comes over him and he slinks away into the trees. "Whew!" says the leopard, "That was close! That old poodle nearly had me!"



Meanwhile, a monkey who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree, figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the leopard. So off he goes, but the old poodle sees him heading after the leopard with great speed, and figures that something must be up. The monkey soon catches up with the leopard, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself with the leopard.



The young leopard is furious at being made a fool of and says, "Here, monkey, hop on my back and see what's going to happen to that conniving canine!



Now, the old poodle sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his back and thinks, "What am I going to do now?", but instead of running, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn't seen them yet, and just when they get close enough to hear, the old poodle says.



"Where's that damn monkey? I sent him off an hour ago to bring me another leopard!



Moral of this story....



Don't mess with old farts .. age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill! Bullshit and brilliance only come with age and experience.

Good one, TORP !!! Clever, clever mom !!!

LOL, FANTASTIC

Ain't it the truth. LOL

The title of this thread reminded me of an old joke that my mom has told for over 40 years about two women meeting at their 30th high school reunion. The first one keeps going on and on about how rich she is, how handsome and attentive her husband is, how perfect and successful her children are, etc., etc. Each time the second woman replies, "Fantastic!" At the end, the first woman finally asks what her friend had been doing for the past 30 years to which she replied, "I went to college and learned to say, 'fantastic' instead of 'bullsh--'."

To this day, whenever my mom says, "fantastic" we all giggle.