{"id":484,"date":"2009-12-30T22:40:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T03:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=484"},"modified":"2023-05-29T11:08:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T16:08:30","slug":"wolf-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2009\/12\/30\/wolf-alarm","title":{"rendered":"Wolf Alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve all heard the story “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”. Which is why it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense that I’m about to recite it.<\/p>\n

Boy is left to watch over some sheep or villagers or whatever, to alert them if a hungry wolf comes by intending to eat them all up. Well, being a smartass, he cries “Wolf!” one night just to troll the villagers, and they figure how he’s screwing with them and kick his ass. The next night, he’s patrolling once more, and again trolls the villagers by screaming that there is a wolf coming, only for them to find no wolf and get pissed again. On the third night, because it’s always the third time in any of these stories that the interesting thing happens, he is out patrolling again and he actually does see a wolf. Oh shit! So he cries “Wolf!” to the villagers, who tell him to STFU and that they’re not falling for it again. So the wolf eats the boy and all the villagers. The end.<\/p>\n

The moral of the story? Well, there are two. No, neither is the one you’ve always been taught is the moral. In the two possible real morals to this story, those villagers are fucking stupid.<\/p>\n

First moral: If you cannot trust your alarm system, get a different one. Otherwise, if you’re going to ignore it anyway, what good is it? So the idiot villagers should have sent someone else to watch for the wolf.<\/p>\n

Second moral: Even a liar sometimes tells the truth!<\/p>\n

As demonstrated so nicely in the US Acres segment “The Wolf Who Cried Boy”. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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