Question of the Day!

As with all of my favorites, it can change from day to day. It's also situation-dependent.

But I'll relate one of my old standbys, from memory. It's not original to me, but I don't know where it came from:

There was this scientist trying to develop a means to vastly extend lifespans. So far, it only worked on marine mammals. He's testing this on his pet dolphin when he notices he's out of a very important ingredient: extract of mynah bird. So, even though the experiment is time-sensitive, he drops everything and heads to the pet store to pick up some more birds. While he was gone, however, there was a problem at the local zoo, and a lot of the big cats escaped. The biggest cat of all wandered around and ended up taking a nap on the guy's front doorstep. So here comes our scientist, back from the pet store, carrying a big bag of mynah birds, when he pulls up short at the sight of the King of the Beasts snoring softly on his front doorstep.

"Oh, man, what am I going to do? I'm at a critical stage in my experiment, and I have to get in there. There's no other way into the house... I know! I'll just sneak up really quiet-like." So he tiptoes up to the porch, gingerly extends one foot over the supine feline, when about a dozen cops come out of nowhere, guns drawn.

"Freeze, mister!" one of them orders. "You're under arrest for transporting mynahs across sedate lions for immortal porpoises!"

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