Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Want to see some Taiwanese Magic?

We have learned a lesson from the Taiwanese Night Market for the price of $200 (TW).

Don't trust bunnies.

Satan
Picture three young and naive teenagers walking the night market in Taiwan. As they turn a corner they come across a nice old man selling cute felt bunnies. The young teenagers, although naive, would just keep walking at such a childish object, but something about those bunnies caught their attention. When commanded, those little felt bunnies would sit, jump, or even lay down. HOW COULD THIS BE! The three teenagers stood and stared in amazement, each one trying to conceive how it might work. What is this old man doing that makes these little bunnies jump? Another amazing thing is that it works in both Chinese and English. The teenagers all took turns commanding the bunny to do various things and it responded! They were amazed. "We need to get some of these for our friends!" they said, still a little skeptical of its power but not skeptical enough to not buy one. The old man gave the price of $100 a piece and they couldn't resist. They dug in their wallets and gave the man the money for two and got their prizes. It was then and then only that they began to see what was really happening and got the sick feeling that they had just been played by an old man in Taiwan. It was also the moment that they saw a string attached to the old man's ring and watched as the bunny moved right with his hand. Had they really been that stupid to buy something so ridiculous? Yes. Yes they had. They now are in possession of two worthless felt bunnies with strings on their backs, waiting to trick the next young soul stupid enough to pay attention. 

I guess that everyone can learn from this. As Forest says, "Stupid is as stupid does." Well, the stupid Americans did as the stupid American does and proved how stupid an American is when a felt bunny does. 

Stupid Americans. 

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