============================================================== |SJD's Fifth annual conference is June 30-July 2, 2000. We're| |almost there. Please help the hosting crew by registering if| |you plan to attend the conference. Log on to the conference | | homepage at http://www.satjadham.net/sjd5sd/ | ============================================================== All, Since I am experiencing pre-SJD5SDism big time, I would like to share my version of "The Little Red Hen" by Paul Galdon, and the below is based on the one Alisak posted a couple of days ago. Enjoy, Toon _______________________________________________________ Once upon a time, there was a little red hen who scratched about the maak houng farm until she uncovered some maak huong seeds. She called her neighbors and said, "If we plant this seed of maak huong, we shall taam maak huong to eat soaneerandon. Who will help me to plant them?" "Bal man koy," mooed the cow. "Bal mee taang," quacked the duck. "hed peua yung," oinked the pig. "Naloak no way!" aired the goose. "Toakie Loangie (okie dokie) Koy shall hed qon dieow," declared the little red hen, and she hed as she voa. The toan maak huong tallened and greened into ready-to-shred maak huong, and the kai mae noy urged, "Who will help me phuck the maak huong?" tarmed/asked the little hen si dang. "Not I," said the Duck. "Out of my lahdup," said the pig. "I'd lose my lahsi," said the cow. "I'd lose my nah yai," said the goose. "Then I will," said the little red hen, and she did. At last it came time to taam maak huong. "Who will help me taam this hpucked maak huong?" asked the little kai mae si dang. "That would be too Lao for me ," said the cow. "I'd lose my CKone smell to the smell of that stinky padaek," flapped the duck. "I would lose all my friends because of my garlic breath," said the pig. "If I'm to be the only helper, that's disunity," said the goose. "Then I will," shouted the little red hen. She taamed five koaks of taam maak huong for her neighbors to henn. They all wanted some - in fact they demanded a koak each. But the little hen si dang voa vah, "No, I can eat the five koaks myself, and even if I can't, I'll call TuyTetsuo SatJaDham LaoVision to come help me because he does not mind the smell of padaek, and he loves his garlic breath." "Huk bung sung bieng!" yelled the cow. "Henn kae tol!" cried the duck. "bal yoot ti tum!" shouted the Goose. The pig just kied/mad and nee pai. Then they hurriedly painted "kai dang ki kaak" picket signs and marched around, shouting khuam bal dee. The ladthabaan agent came and said to the little red hen, "You must not be loab maak lo pah." "But I taamed the five koaks of TMH," said the little red hen. "Man leaw, man tae nae non," said the agent. "That is the wonderful free-enterprise system. Anyone in the taam maak huong farm can earn as much as she wants. But, under government regulations, the productive workers must divide their koaks of TMH with the needy." And they lived happily ever after. But the little red hen's neighbors wondered why she never again taam maak huong, or if she ever did, they would never touch it, because with the right amount of maak phed along with the best fermented padaek in one koak of taam maak huong, it can send them to never, never land where they will never ever have to worry about constipation again ;o)! The End _____________________________________________________________ = You want FREE web-based email ? = You want your own @qon.lao.net address?? = Then you want LaoNet's WebMail ! = Get it at http://webmail.lao.net !! _ ***************************************************************** To reach ALL SJD members, please send to sjd@satjadham.net ... Do NOT include any other addresses when sending to the list... Include as LITTLE of the original messages as possible........ Message sent by: "Toon S.Phapphayboun" *****************************************************************