Author: A cBell Central Original
Date Published: 05.12.2001
Description: Another fine IM story. It’s strange how when I get bored, I can whip out these IM stories in no time This one is about, well obviously Pokie the Platypus, and an issue that comes up with tourists in Pokie’s town. Enjoy!
So there’s this platypus. His name was pokie the platypus. Pokie lived in a small platypus community on the outskirts of Pennsylvania. Pokie lived a happy life, free of troubles most of the time and full of fun and other duck billed animals. Pokie worked at the community duck pond where he supervised the feeding of all the ducks there, people would buy food out of those lil feeders and feed it to the ducks, but some of the ducks would get greedy and would take more then their share of the ducky duck duck food. So it was Pokie’s job to make sure everyone got their fair share.
When ever pokie wasn’t at work, he enjoyed taking strolls with his Discman portable CD player and jamming to some Eve or Missy Elliot. One day pokie was out jamming to some tunes and was walking near the local Eiffel tower. It was here where all the Eiffels were made and people flocked from all over to buy their Eiffels here in Pokie’s town.
Anyhoo, while he was out jamming, he passed a group of tourists who appeared lost so pokie went over to them to see if he could help. Pokie walked up to them and started to speak, but then he remember that humans don’t speak platypus and all they were hearing was that sound that platypus’s make. According to a reliable source that sound is kind of like “eeeuck”.
As pokie turned away to leave, the tourists started snapping pictures of pokie because they had never seen a platypus carrying a Discman and jamming to some tunes and wearing a bib… yes pokie was wearing a bib because he had just gotten done eating at taco bell. Pokie had never had his picture taken and found that he quite enjoyed it, he wasn’t sure why, but it was rather pleasing to him. Pokie thought he would help the tourists by posing in various action poses. He posed driving their car and laying out getting some sun and sleeping and the whole kit and caboodle. He even tried to pose eating one of the lil kid’s sucker, but that didn’t go over too well. The lil kid got mad, and pokie thought he was just joking, but apparently he wasn’t. Here is Pokie’s version of how it happened:
then he gets mad, and u can almost see the steam coming out of his ears and kicking his feet (rather like a bull) as he barrels toward u as if hes actually gonna hurt u, then that makes u laugh even harder, and i think u know where this is going, it doesn’t end until mom picks herself off the floor (she too is laughing) and stops the madness w/ a lame excuse
Since the lil boy’s mother took care of the issue, pokey felt that he was off the hook, but thought he’d better be moving on so that he didn’t cause any further trouble. So pokie began on his way again, and it wasn’t long before he came across Honkers the goose. Pokie and Honkers were able to talk because they both spoke billinese. Pokie and Honkers discussed their days and pokie told honkers all about the tourists and the lil kid and everything. Honkers could feel Pokie’s pain because as it turns out, he had been through a similar ordeal just last week. Honkers and pokie went on to discuss how these photo taking sessions could be regulated to prevent such tragedies as these. They discussed putting Crackers the pigeon on patrol duty and if he saw any infractions he was to poop on their car, but after further discussion they decided that that was prolly a lil extreme.
Finally they came up with a solution, there would be a new rule throughout the animal community that whenever they were approached by tourists they had to cover up any thing not normal (Discmans, bibs, earrings, pocket protectors, watches, palm pilots, etc.) and then the tourists wouldn’t be as interested in the animals and they could go on with their lives.
The plan was put into immediate effect and all the animals agreed to abide to it except for Stinky Pete, but they told stinky that he couldn’t play with his Legos any more if he didn’t follow the new rule, and that did the trick, stinky Pete cleaned up his act
It wasn’t more than a week later when honkers and pokie were walking down Wabash avenue and saw that Inky the squid was being harassed by some tourists. Honkers and Pokie ran to Inky’s aid and at that moment a man yelled out who are these silly animals and why are they on my set? As it turns out inky was starring in a recreation drama show called eXtra Nonsense and was recreating the drama of Pokie’s encounter so that the entire nation would know the incredible story.
Pokie and Honkers chucked as they turned and headed on down to BW 3’s for some wings and everyone lived happily ever after.