General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

An Aussie bloke walks into a Sydney curio/antique shop. After looking
around for a while, he noticed a very life-like bronze statue of a rat.

It had no price tag, but it was so striking that he decided to buy it
anyway. He took it to the owner and said: 'How much is this bronze rat?'

The owner replied: 'It's $12 for the rat, and $100 for the story.'

The fella gave the owner his $12 and said: 'I'll just take the rat,
you can keep the story!'

As he walked off down the street, he noticed that a few real rats had
crawled out of the drains and begun following him. This was a little
disconcerting, so he started to walk a little faster, but within a
couple of blocks the swarm of rats had grown to hundreds, and they
were all squealing and screeching in a very menacing way.

He increased his speed and ran on towards Sydney Harbour and as he
ran, he looked behind him and saw the rats now numbered in their
MILLIONS, and they were running faster and faster.. By now very
concerned, he ran down to the pier and threw the bronze rat as far out
into the water as he could.

Amazingly, the millions of real rats jumped into the water after it
and were all drowned.

The man walked back to relate all this to the shop owner, who said,
'Ah, you've come back for the story then?'

'Hell no!' said the bloke, 'I came back to see if you've got a bronze
Muslim, a couple of Asians, a Poof, a Pom and an Indian spin bowler.