OT: Best fairy tale *ever*! (spew warning!)

Aug 30, 2006 8 Replies

Once upon a time in a land far away, a beautiful, independent, self-assured princess happened upon a frog as she sat contemplating ecological issues on the shores of an unpolluted pond in a verdant meadow near her castle.



The frog hopped into the princess' lap and said: "Elegant Lady, I was once a handsome prince, until an evil witch cast a spell upon me. One kiss from you, however, and I will turn back into the dapper, young prince that I am and then, my sweet, we can marry and set up housekeeping in your castle with my mother, where you can prepare my meals, clean my clothes, bear my children, and forever feel grateful and happy doing so."



That night, as the princess dined sumptuously on lightly sauted frog legs seasoned in a white wine and onion cream sauce, she chuckled and thought to herself:



. . . .



"I don't freakin think so!"


Joan



Reminds me of what my friend called "The Modern Fairy Tale". It's about a princess who kisses a bonafide prince and he turns into a frog!

-Shanti.

It's a good thing I wasn't holding my coffee cup. My new computer would have been a mess.

Lucille

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It is a nice new interpretation , but it wasn`t funny. Yet I myself at times use old folkstories as metaphors in my own art work. Using it in a work of art contacts it with the Old interpretation as people remember , but tries to pull it into new meanings. We all have the right and duty to check and see how old stories affect

our thinking patterns. And we have to try and see how old stories affected our way of looking at the world and reacting to it. These days more than ever, since the world`s future is affected by so many Myths and lores. mirjam

That`s not a fairytale - just think of Prince Charles!

Pat P

He was *born* a frog...

Elizabeth

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