Re: Big Martin & The Lighthouse
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.lata222.voicenet.com)
Date: April 23, 2004 10:20PM
Sometime back in the 1960s I heard (by oral tradition) what must have been the same story about the ever-larger cats, and I remember its punch line.
In the version I heard, the name is Marvin, and each cat tells the next arrival, "We can't start yet, we have to wait until Marvin gets here."
After a succession of kitten, cat, bobcat, jaguar, puma, leopard, tiger, etc., we finally get to a lion, who asks, "Shall we begin now?" and gets the usual answer. The lion then roars: "MARVIN ISN'T COMING!" End of story.