OT: Rabbit story

A rabbit walks into a pub and says to the barman, 'Can I have a pint of beer and a Ham and Cheese Toastie?'. The barman is amazed but gives the rabbit a pint of beer and a ham and cheese toastie. The rabbit drinks the beer and eats the toastie, then leaves.

The following night the rabbit returns and again asks for a Pint of Beer and a Ham and Cheese Toastie. The barman, now intrigued by the rabbit and the extra drinkers in the pub (because word gets round) gives the rabbit the pint and the toastie. The rabbit consumes them and leaves.

The next night, the pub is packed, in walks the rabbit and says 'A pint of beer and a Ham and Cheese Toastie, please barman'. The crowd is hushed as the barman gives the rabbit his pint and toastie and then burst into applause as the rabbit wolfs them down.

The next night there is standing room only in the pub, coaches have been laid on for the crowds of patrons attending, the barman is making more money in one week than he did all last year. In walks the rabbit and says, 'A Pint of Beer and a Ham and Cheese Toastie, please barman', smiling and accepting the tributes of the masses. The barman says, 'I'm sorry rabbit, old mate, old mucker but we are right out of them Ham and Cheese Toasties'.

The rabbit looks aghast, the crowd has quietened to almost a whisper, when the barman clears his throat nervously and says, 'We do have a very nice Cheese and Onion Toastie'. The rabbit looks him in the eye and says, 'Are you sure I will like it?' The masses bated breath is ear shatteringly silent. The barman, with a roguish smile says 'Do you think that I would let down one of my best friends, I know you'll love it'. 'Ok' says the rabbit,' I'll have a Pint of Beer and a Cheese and Onion Toastie'. The pub erupts with glee as the rabbit quaffs the beer and guzzles the toastie, he then waves to the crowd and leaves....

......NEVER TO RETURN!!!!!!

One year later in the now impoverished public house, the barman (who has only served 4 drinks tonight, 3 of which were his) calls time. When he is cleaning down the now empty bar, he sees a small white form, floating above the bar. The barman says, 'Who are you' To which he is answered, 'I am the ghost of the rabbit that used to frequent your public house'. The barman says, 'I remember you, you made me famous, you would come in every night and have a Pint of Beer and a Ham and Cheese Toastie, masses came to see you and this place was famous' The rabbit says, 'Yes I know'. The barman said, 'I remember, on your last night we didn't have any Ham and Cheese Toasties, you had a Cheese and Onion one instead' The rabbit said 'Yes, you promised me that I would love it'. The barman said 'You never came back, what happened?'

'I DIED', said the Rabbit.

'NO!' said the barman,'what from'. After a short pause. The rabbit said...

'Mixin'-me-toasties'

Reply to
Pat P
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Pat, that is absolutely terrible!!! I really couldn't see what was coming until I got to the end!!!! LOLOL

Gill

Reply to
Gillian Murray

I know it is bad netiquette to respond, but it is several hours later, I had to explain to DH the joke. One score for the UK!!LOL

Snickering

Gill

Reply to
Gillian Murray

Now explain it for this Brooklyn born person.

Reply to
lucille

Me too!

Reply to
Cheryl Isaak

OK, this is for all the foreigners on the east side of the pond.

In England ( especially in WW2) rabbit was a favorite source of food, because it was trapped,shot and not rationed. I remember we had it quite frequently; whenever my dad came across a countryman with a dead rabbit in his hand, he would stop the old guy, lay some cash on him and voila...supper. My mother did wonders with rabbit, and I miss it.

I digress!!

In the late 50s, a bad disease of rabbits ran through the country. It produced swollen eyes and blindness. We couldn't eat the dead ones.

The name of this disease was myxamytosis. (Mixin'-me-toasties'

Is this relatively close, Pat??

Gill

NEVER say you don't learn something strange on this site!!!

Reply to
Gillian Murray

You really don't want to know.

myx·o·ma·to·sis (mik-so'm?-to'sis) n. pl. myx·o·ma·to·ses (-sez)

A highly infectious, usually fatal disease of rabbits that is caused by a pox virus and is characterized by many skin tumors similar to myxomas. A condition characterized by the growth of many myxomas. I remember walking in fields and seeing rabbits crouching and trembling, blood seeping from their orifices and ever so slowly, dying. Even farmers said they would never have wished such an end to rabbits as this imported virus wrought. The terrible part was it took them so long to die. Hideous.

Reply to
lucretiaborgia

You are 100% right. I don't want to know.

How is this funny????

Reply to
lucille

Amen - odd and strange...

C
Reply to
Cheryl Isaak

It's a sick pun, along the lines of Monty Python at their worst.

C
Reply to
Cheryl Isaak

I generally like black humor. Maybe it's because I had no clue what this meant until it was explained to me.

Reply to
lucille

That`s it, Gill - it was imported to Britain (I think sometime in the early fifties) in an effort to control the overpopulation of rabbits. If we saw one when out fetching the horses in, we`d hit them (the rabbits, not the horses!) on the back of the neck with a big stick to put them out of their misery.

Jane says it`s still about, usually when the weather makes the rabbits stay in their burrows for long periods. They do seem to have built up some resistance to it though, so you don`t see it nearly as often as you did then. I did see one by the road out of here last year, poor thing. I guess Myx. never reached the US. which I find a bit surprising though, since it originated in Uruguay and IS so spectacularly infectious. Jane always has her pet rabbits innoculated against it.

Myxomatosis (commonly called 'myxo') is a disease which affects rabbits. It is caused by the Myxoma virus. First observed in Uruguay in the late 1800s, it was deliberately introduced into Australia in 1950 in an attempt to control rabbit infestation and population there; see rabbits in Australia. It was introduced illegally to France in 1952 and as a result spread to the rest of Europe. (lots of links there!)

We had rabbit a lot during the war and just after - but I just can`t bring myself to eat it since the Myxomatosis outbreak - not even cultivated ones. Apparently there`s no risk attached to eating even a "Myxi" one if cooked. Even if one appears healthy, Jane says you can always tell by the state of the liver if it`s been infected.

Pat

Reply to
Pat P

You really don't want to know.

myx·o·ma·to·sis (mik-so'm?-to'sis) n. pl. myx·o·ma·to·ses (-sez)

Yes Myxo is not very pleasant, but neither have been the absolute ravages caused by rabbits, an introduced pest, on the Australian landscape. They have destroyed viable land (of which we have precious little), they have competed with native animals for food - even in the most marginal of land. There is little here to keep numbers in check, most Australian animals are herbivores, and even those that aren't couldn't hope to prey on rabbits often enough to keep numbers under control. Rabbits are an absolute blight on this country.

Joanne in Perth WA

Reply to
The Lady Gardener

There could have been far more kind ways to rid the land of rabbits.

Reply to
lucretiaborgia

Duh - I don't get it. :-(

Sharon (N.B.)

Reply to
Sha

Kinder, yes, but not as effective, unfortunately - although they have become somewhat resistant over the tears.

One shot at a rabbit and the rest bolt down their burrows. One infected rabbit can wipe out a whole warren.

Pat

Reply to
Pat P

I almost *almost* wish we had it here. The city people have been trapping the cottontails in the "humane" traps and "kindly" let them out in the country. They are overrunning everything! The fox have all died off the last couple of years from mange and coyotes have moved in. Once coyotes move in, fox stay away. Coyotes don't hunt the rabbits & skunks like the fox did, so they're really becoming unmanageable. In fact, DH shot a bunny out the back window just this morning. They chew the tops off the new trees he keeps trying to plant. The snowshoe hares, which are "normal" for the open areas, don't do nearly the damage the cottontails do.

Joan

Reply to
NDJoan

We have a gazillion-jillion bunnies on my Baltimore street this year. In the past few years, numbers have been way down - probably due to the resident fox. This year it's a bumper crop...I counted a dozen just driving down my short block the other night. (DH was driving, that is, NOT the bunnies. )

Sue

Reply to
Susan Hartman

Not far from you, Sue, in Dover, and we're overrun with bunnies too. There seem to be lots more than in previous years, and I haven't seen the foxes that go through my backyard in ages. The (indoor) cat was all fuzzed up at a deer yesterday morning, but deer are just another plague. Not that I wish horrible diseases on any of them; it's just that the natural order is disordered.

Sara

Reply to
Sara

There are no predators on this island apart from a few feral cats so we have rabbits aplenty, although there are still traces of myxomatosis ; one side-effect of this is that the domestic fowls (hens, ducks & geese) don't need to be penned up at night.

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