(Another week of stuff from my book, "Fishducky's Fables".)
(Ed. Note: Many of these names may be very hard to pronounce, unless you’re Greek, but it doesn’t matter.)
(Ed. Note: Many of these names may be very hard to pronounce, unless you’re Greek, but it doesn’t matter.)
Many
years ago, Zeus, who was a very powerful god indeed, ordered Aphrodite’s
husband, Hephaestus, to make him a daughter out of clay. He made a beautiful woman and named her
Pandora. It was Hephaestus’ first
attempt at making a woman, so she may not have been perfect, but Zeus said,
“Good enough,” and asked, “What do I owe you?”
Hephaestus told him, “Nothing. It’s
on me.”
Zeus sent his new daughter, Pandora, down to earth so that she
could marry Epimethius, who was a gentle but lonely man. Zeus was not
being kind. He was getting even. Epimethius and Prometheus were brothers. Zeus was mad at Prometheus for giving people
fire without first asking his permission.
Zeus gave Pandora a little box with a big heavy lock on it. He made her promise never to open the box. He gave the key to her husband and told him to
never open it, either. Zeus was sure
that his curiosity would get the better of him, and that either Epimethius or
his brother Prometheus would open the box.
Pandora was very curious. She wanted to see what was inside the
box and begged her husband, “Pretty, pretty please with a cherry on the top?”
but Epimethius said, “No, you’d better not. I never trusted your
father." Her husband sighed, “You
know how tricky he can be.”
One day, when Epimethius lay sleeping, Pandora stole the key and
opened the box, but just a crack.
Imagine her surprise when she heard the voice of Frank Sinatra
singing. She had discovered Pandora
Radio! She had to see what else was in there.
She opened it just a little more and beheld 14 K gold, silver and two
tone bracelets and necklaces. She had
found one of the outlets for Pandora Jewelry!!
She was enthralled!!
She wondered what else could be in that marvelous box, so she
opened it all the way. Big mistake! Out flew every kind of disease and sickness,
hate and envy, and all the bad things that people had never experienced before. She slammed the box shut.
Epimethius woke up at the sound of her sobbing. “I opened the box and all these ugly things
flew out,” she cried. “I tried to catch
them, but they all got out.” Pandora
opened the box to show him how empty it now was. But the box wasn’t empty. Howard Stern was now talking but all that
lovely jewelry was still there.
Zeus had his revenge. From
that day forward, all husbands have been required to furnish their wives with
jewelry, but they are permitted to
listen to Pandora Radio, for a small subscription fee, of course.
Many of you are too young to remember the
very clever & popular ventriloquist Senor Wences.
He used his hand to create Johnny.
Pedro was the disembodied head in the box.
And some box cartoons:
Most packages say "Open here." What
is the protocol if the package says, "Open somewhere else"?----fishducky
