>> A teacher gave her class of 11 year olds an assignment: To get their
> >> parent to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it.
> >>
> >> The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their
> >> stories.
> >> Ashley said, 'My father's a farmer and we have alot of egg-laying hens.
> >> One time we were taking our eggs to market in a basket on the front seat
> >> of the car when we hit a big bump in the road and all the eggs got
> >> broken.'
> >>
> >> 'What's the morale of that story?' asked the teacher.
> >>
> >> 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket!'
> >>
> >> 'Very good,' said the teacher.
>> >>
> >> Next little Sarah raised her hand and said, 'Our family are farmers
> >> too. But we raise chickens for the meat market. One day we had a dozen
> >> eggs, but when they hatched we only got ten live chicks, and the moral
> >> to this story is, 'Don't count your chickens before they're hatched'.'
> >>
> >> 'That was a fine story Sarah.'
> >> Michael, do you have a story to share?'
> >>
> >> 'Yes. My daddy told me this story about my Aunty Karen. Aunty Karen was
> >> a flight engineer on a plane in the Gulf War and her plane got hit.
> >> She had to bail out over enemy territory and all she had was a bottle
> >> of whisky, a machine gun and a machete.
> >> She drank the whiskey on the way down so it wouldn't break and then she
> >> landed right in the middle of 100 enemy troops.
> >> She killed seventy of them with the machine gun until she ran out of bullets.
> >> Then she killed twenty more with the machete until the blade broke.
> >> And then she killed the last ten with her bare hands.'

> >> 'Good heavens,' said the horrified teacher, 'what kind of moral did your
> >> daddy tell you from that horrible story?'
> >>
> >> 'Stay the f .... away from Aunty Karen when she's been drinking.'