And another:
Soup
The Cook was making soup. His brother, the other cook, came into the kitchen, tasted the brew, and added a number of new ingredients. The soup bubbled away. The Cooks's wife gettting back from the shopping, tasted, raised her fine eyebrows, and added two items from her shopping bags. The soup bubbled away. The Cook's mother, interfering old biddy, came in, tasted and added something from her capacious pockets. The Cooks' father, the boss, came in, tasted, added something nobody else had ever heard of. The soup bubbled away. A street urchin ran in, tasted the broth and yelled out, 'This soup is piss!' The cook and his brother winked at each other and threw the unfortunate lad head first into the soup, which bubbled away. The result was voted scrumptious by everybody concerned, except the child of course.
Moral: A family's joy is the broth of a boy.
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