The Troll Scorpion and the Liberal Frog. [View All]

[bluesbassman]

One day, a troll scorpion looked around at the GD forum where he lived and decided that he wanted a change. So he set out on a journey through the threads and sub-threads. He climbed over dead trolls and under tombstones and kept going until he reached a Forum, the dreaded GDP.

The river was wide and swift through GDP, and the troll scorpion stopped to reconsider the situation. He couldn't see any way across. So he ran up thread and then checked down thread, all the while thinking that he might have to turn back.

Suddenly, he saw a Liberal frog sitting in the rushes by the bank of the forum on the other side. He decided to ask the Liberal frog for help getting across the churning pool of chaos.
"Hellooo Mr. Liberal Frog!" called the troll scorpion across the posts, "Would you be so kind as to give me a ride on your back across the forum?"
"Well now, Mr. Troll Scorpion! How do I know that if I try to help you, you wont try to kill me?" asked the Liberal frog hesitantly. "Because," the troll scorpion replied, "If I try to kill you, then I would die too, for you see I cannot swim!"

Now this seemed to make sense to the frog. But he asked. "What about when I get close to the bank? You could still try to kill me and get back to the shore!" "This is true," agreed the scorpion, "But then I wouldn't be able to get to the other side of the forum!"
"Alright then...how do I know you wont just wait till we get to the other side and THEN kill me?" said the frog. "Ahh...," crooned the troll scorpion, "Because you see, once you've taken me to the other side of this forum, I will be so grateful for your help, that it would hardly be fair to reward you with death, now would it?!"

So the Liberal frog agreed to take the troll scorpion across the forum. He swam over to the bank and settled himself near the mud and slime and innuendo to pick up his passenger. The troll scorpion crawled onto the frog's back, his sharp claws prickling into the frog's soft hide, and the Liberal frog slid into the forum. The muddy water, made so by lies, distortions and rancor swirled around them, but the Liberal frog stayed near the surface so the troll scorpion would not drown. He kicked strongly through the first half of the forum, his flippers paddling wildly against the current.

Halfway across the forum, the frog suddenly felt a sharp sting in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the troll scorpion remove his stinger from the Liberal frog's back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs. "You fool!" croaked the frog, "Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?" The troll scorpion shrugged, and did a little Carl Rove jig on the drowning Liberal frog's back. "I could not help myself. It is my nature." Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing GDP forum.

Self destruction - "Its my Nature", said the Scorpion... Beware the scorpion, choose your friends wisely, and keep one eye on your enemies always. There will be time enough to save truly repentant “scorpions” when we have one the prize.