A Rudy Parable

[ABM]

Time to step up, Rudy.....you old mule!

Once upon a time a farmer owned an old mule who tripped and fell into the farmer’s well.
The farmer heard the mule braying and was unable to figure out how to bring up the old animal. It grieved him that he could not pull the animal out. He’d been a good worker around the farm.

Although the farmer sympathized with the mule, he called his neighbors together and told them what had happened. He had them help haul dirt to bury the old mule in the well and quietly put him out of his misery.

At first, the old mule was puzzled, but as the farmer and his neighbors continued shoveling and the dirt hit his back, he had a thought: he ought to shake off the dirt and step up. And he did just that.

“Shake it off and step up…shake it off and step up…shake it off and step up.” Even though he took painful blows of dirt and fought panic, he just kept right on shaking it off and stepping up!

It wasn’t long before the old mule stepped up and over the lip of that well. What could have buried him actually blessed him…all because of the manner in which he handled his adversity.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Rudy's not traveling with the team to Phoenix -

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63I6TU20100419

 

[ABM]

Rudy's not traveling with the team to Phoenix -

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63I6TU20100419

Would you trade Rudy and Martell to Houston for Battier?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Would you trade Rudy and Martell to Houston for Battier?

Hell yes but I sure don't see Houston doing that trade.

 

[ABM]

Hell yes but I sure don't see Houston doing that trade.

What if it were Bayless instead of Martell?

 

[barfo]

It wasn’t long before the old mule stepped up and over the lip of that well.

And then the mule killed the farmer and his neighbors.

barfo

 

[SlyPokerDog]

What if it were Bayless instead of Martell?

Hell yes but I sure don't see Houston doing that trade x2.

 

[ABM]

And then the mule killed the farmer and his neighbors.

barfo

That's fine...so long as they all lived in Phoenix.

 

[ABM]

Just toss Rudy a Sprite.

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[Sedatedfork]

And then the mule killed the farmer and his neighbors.

barfo

Stubborn serial killer mule.

 

[Entity]

Rudy's not traveling with the team to Phoenix -

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63I6TU20100419

I guess Batum and Mills are out of the question, too.

 

[TripTango]

Time to step up, Rudy.....you old mule!

And so the mule performed well enough for the farmer to actually get some value for him at the market the following weekend, netting the farmer a promising young colt and two dozen eggs in trade.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

And so the mule performed well enough for the farmer to actually get some value for him at the market the following weekend, netting the farmer a promising young colt and two dozen eggs in trade.

Or three magic beans.

 

[maxiep]

Mules are stubborn. Rudy is Spanish.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Mules are stubborn. Rudy is Spanish.

Neither wear underwear.

 

[ABM]

Neither wear underwear.

I was thinking the SAME exact thing!

 

[HailBlazers]

Hell yes but I sure don't see Houston doing that trade.

You don't see Houston Trading two young guns for one old one? They would make that in a Flash.

Great Parabole ABM, funny

 

[Nikolokolus]

Well Rudy is an ass ...