The Jailhouse

[AKvetch]

Churak, this here Jail is a lonely place. The Sheriff is in Florida, and Judge Fred is truckin' somewhere. We got that feller who's a bit touched and plaintively keeps repeating the same message, but nobody hears him. And there's the hash man, but he seems to be out distributing at the moment. So, I guess it's up to us to resolve our disagreement, but maybe it's just a language problem, you know, in defining a word. (Didn't we have a former pres. who had trouble defining a common word?)

You sent me the following message (#msg-542275):

PLAGIARIST.........................................

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Once there was a king that ruled in a far away land. This particular king had a palace made of grass. One day the king was sitting on his throne and thought to himself,'I am king. I deserve a better throne than this.' So the king called the local throne maker and ordered him to make a better throne.

So the throne maker set to work and made the king the most beautiful throne ever. The king was very pleased, but he had a problem. He didn't have room for both thrones in his throneroom. The throne maker suggested that the king give the old throne to charity, but this king was too jealous and wouldn't have it. So he told the throne maker to just store the old throne in the attic.

Every year thereafter, the king would get a new throne and store the old one in the attic. But one day, after several years, while he was doing whatever it is a king does all day, the grass ceiling collapsed from the weight of the thrones in the attic, and the king was crushed and killed.

The moral of the story is: People in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones

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You claim I plagiarized the above story with my post below (#msg-541825):

In the Hawaiian islands during the 16th century, the form of government was a monarchy. The symbol for power was a very elegantly carved and ornate throne. The King was very fearful that the throne would be stolen, so every night he placed it in the rafters in his hut and would sleep underneath it. His thinking was that anyone entering to steal the throne would wake him.

This system proved to be very effective, but over the years the rafters weakened, and one night the throne came crashing down upon the King and sadly he was killed.

Thus was born the expression "People who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones."

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These look like two entirely different stories to me, so I do not understand your claim of plagiarism. If you still believe you are correct I would appreciate an explanation; otherwise, I would appreciate an apology for your unfair characterization of my post. If neither of these alternatives work for you I will have to ask Matt to give you some special time with inmate Hurricane. Thanks for your cooperation.

AK