Start the Week (more officially-sanctioned Euro-humour)

[peteryoung]

A mouse woke up one morning and looked from his hole in the skirting boards out into the large room beyond, where he saw a large lump of delicious Emmental cheese. Feeling a bit peckish for breakfast he decided to wander out and eat some of the cheese, when suddenly he heard a “meeeoww” coming from just a little further away. So sensing the cat outside, he decided that it might be considerably wiser to stay indoors that day, which he did. The next day the mouse woke up again, obviousy hungrier than the day before, and looking out from his mousehole he saw an even more delicious lump of Cheddar, just waiting for him to venture out and eat it, but once again he heard another “meeeoww” from the nearby cat, and again decided it would be best to stay indoors that day, which again he did. The third morning, the mouse woke up, feeling the hungriest he could ever remember feeling, only to look out from his mousehole and see the most delicious slice of Brie he had ever seen. He listened out for the cat, but this time heard a loud “woof!” coming from nearby. The mouse figured that with the cat’s enemy around, he would be safe to venture out and steal the piece of Brie, but as he was bravely strolling out of his mousehole towards the cheese, the cat’s razor-sharp claws appeared from nowhere and came down fast, killing the mouse. A little later, as the cat finished her meal, she licked her claws and mouth, turned to her litter and said, “And that, my children, is the advantage of having a second language.”