An old tale told to me by a lover in my youth

Once upon a time, hidden high in the snow covered mountains, was a happy peaceful village. Tridville it was called because it's inhabitants were Trids! Now what's a Trid you may ask, and I suppose it needs explaining, for few have known of the Trids. Trids are smaller in stature than a man and they have big hairy feet. In fact Trids are completely covered in fur, (unlike a hobbit) mostly white with markings. Friendly, cute, round, peaceful little Adbominal Snowmen they are indeed.
Trids live in rather large igloos, often two story igloos. All with a warm hearth and fire inside. They are after all, masters of the snow. Trids love games, and making merry and have frequent holidays and celebrations. The Trids will gather and feast and play. They laugh and sing, have sled races, hilarious snow ball battles and feats of strength and more. All to a joyous noise. Indeed every day is a joy in Tridville.
Save one day that is. Once a year a monstrous deformed Trid, , three times the height of a normal Trid, possessing enormously large hairy feet, comes down from his highest of caves and wrecks havoc on Tridville. He yells frightening things and rolls giant snowballs into the town before entering and assaulting the hapless peaceful Trids. He swings his enormous feet here and there, knocking the smaller Trids into the snowbanks, over the chimneys, down the gently sloping valley. It's as though he wants to see how high or far he can kick them each and every one of them! And it is high and far indeed. Every year it's the same thing, on the same day. He comes to the village and kicks all the inhabitants silly except he never kicks the Rabbi.
Did I forget to mention the Rabbi? What is a Rabbi doing in Tridville you say? Well it's simple of course. The Rabbi had lost his way in a blizzard and the Trids rescued him. As he recovered from his ordeal he came to love the Trids and decided to live among them. And every day he was rewarded, for the Trids are such a joy to be around, and the Trids, they loved the Rabbi too and always treated him as an honored, loved guest.
And so the years wore on, Peacefully, joyfully, hidden away from the troubles of the world. Except of course for that horrible one day each year.
On just such a day, when the Rabbi was very old and not likely long for this world, while the terrible monster Trid was terrorizing his smaller cousins, the Rabbi gatherd his strength and courage and confronted the Monster Trid.
'Monster, monster' he cried, 'why oh why? why do you come to the village each year and kick the Trids over the chimneys and into snowbanks and down the valley, you kick ALL the Trids' he cried. 'But you've never kicked me'. why monster why?'
Well the monster Trid appeared taken aback, then slowly rising to his full hideous height, he fixed his gaze on the frail old Rabbi and said
'Silly Rabbi, kicks are for Trids!'

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For the younger crowd I'll explain. Once upon a time past there was a commercial on TV for Trix cereal. There was a cartoon rabbit (Trix) trying to sneak a bowl of Trix cereal, But the little boy or girl (a real one) would always outsmart Trix the rabbit and the commercial would end with the kid saying 'Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids!'
Guess ya had ta been there.

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"Friendly, cute, round, peaceful little Adbominal Snowmen they are indeed."

Wonderful and funny tale of Trix. Thanks for the joy!

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Boudreaux died and was on his way down to Hell. In anticipation, the Devil turned up the thermostat to make it extra warm for Boudreaux. When Boudreaux arrived, the Devil asked, "Hey Boudreaux, how do you like the heat down here?"

Boudreaux says, "Mais, it's just fine. It reminds me of Bayou PonPon in July."

That made the Devil mad. That night, he turned the thermostat up as far as it could go. Man it was hot! When Boudreaux woke up, the Devil asked him, "NOW how do you like it down here?"

Boudreaux says, "Mais, it's fine. It reminds me of August on Bayou Lafourche."

As you might expect, that made the Devil all the more mad. Well, that night, he turned the thermostat down all the way it could go! The whole place frosted over. Icicles started forming from the rafters. When Boudreaux woke up, the Devil asked him, "How you like it NOW, Boudreaux?"

Boudreaux, shivering, through blue lips, says, "Mais cher, I'm one happy Cajun!"

The Devil was infuriated! He yelled, "What do you mean you're one happy Cajun?!!"

Boudreaux, still shivering says, "The Saints done won the Superbowl!"

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ROFL ROFL ROFL

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thanatokephaloides's picture

Our typical reader might not be old enough to remember the Trix cereal commercial which made this tale funny.

*I*, on the other hand, am old enough to remember it.

Groan!

Bomb Bad Bomb

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for putting it in its original context. Until then, all I could think of was the 'silly rabbi(t) Trix, from you know where.

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All these years later, after all the jokes learned, used and forgotten, this one joke has always remained at the ready.
It sucks I'm losing the joke to the times, it's such a good joke. *sigh*

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In troubled years that came before the deluge
*Jackson Browne, 1974, Before the Deluge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SX-HFcSIoU

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A very long time ago indeed, the Land of Egypt was ruled by a Pharaoh named Akhenaten. Now Akhenaten, who was born Amenhotep IV, did major changes in the ways ordinary Egyptians worshipped; and as religion and the Nile were the two major driving factors for an Egyptian during the Pharaonic era, this change was a serious disruption. Now, you may well ask, what change? Akhenaten abolished the worship of multiple Gods and Goddesses (like Amun, Osiris, Horus, Thoth, Ra, Isis, etc.) and replaced them all with the Solar Disc, Aten. All the Egyptians had to submit to Aten so long as Akhenaten lived, whether they liked it or not. And many Egyptians did not like it.

Eventually, Akhenaten died. For several years after his death, there were various forms of chicanery as several candidates attempted to secure the Egyptian Throne. We moderns are not certain about how it all went; but eventually, the most famous of all the Pharaohs to 20th Century and later humanity, King Tut, got onto the throne with some reasonable security.

Now, during all of this religious mucking around, some things did not change in Egypt. Egyptians still loved cats. They still worshipped cats and still gave some of their cats more elaborate funerals than they themselves got, which is how we moderns know this, as the cats' mummies have been found. And the Egyptians tended to relate their cats to their Gods. Under the old regime, they would worship Bastet and Sekhmet (Goddesses of the domesticated cat and the lioness respectively), and they would relate the cats to their ultimate God, the Sun God, Ra, calling their beloved companions "Ra's cats".

Of course, once Akhenaten took over, they had to be called "Aten's cats", as the Pharaoh himself doubtless called his own cats.

When Carter opened King Tut's tomb in 1922, it was discovered that his funerary throne had two distinct cartouches describing his name: one read "Tut-ankh-amun" and the other one read "Tut-ankh-aten". This suggests that Tut wanted everybody to just get along, at least when the throne was made.

If this is the case, King Tut would almost certainly have called his cats "Ra-Aten cats", a term used today in the English language by those of us who have cats as their companions in the home!

Wink

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No matter how long it takes, no matter how far I have to go, I will make you pay for that! Wink

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The more people I meet, the more I love my cats.

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I haven't actually LOL'ed in a long time and this did it. Thanks a ton!!!

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I am stealing this tale/tail of yours

I haven't actually LOL'ed in a long time and this did it. Thanks a ton!!!

You're welcome! (And the story really is my original work, too!)

Biggrin

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BRAVO!!!

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Too lazy to type out the long version, but the story is about a drunk pitcher on the old Milwaukee Braves named Mal Famey. He got drunk during a game and walked all the opposing hitters and the Braves lost. Members of the opposing team comment about the beer Mal drank:
Player1: What kinda beer was he drinkin'?
Player2: Schlitz.
Player1: What kinda beer is that?
Player2: Why that's the beer that make Mal Famey walk us!

Hint:
https://cdn0.rubylane.com/shops/rachelsattic/10-0557J.1L.jpg

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