Friday, July 17, 2009

The Shroom Panda: A History


Of all Pandas, there is one panda that stands above them all. That's right, I'm talking about the rare and sympathetic Shroom Panda.
When all other pandas would scoff you and then proceed with tearing your arms off, the Shroom Panda will compassionately sit with you and eat your wild mushroom roasted over the fire. What makes the Shroom Panda so different from the others of its species (i.e. the Great Panda, the Grand Panda, and the Abnormally Small Panda) is a peace treaty. In a time way before any of us were born, even the immortals and really old guys next door, there was a great war. The war was between genetically engineered triplets and, of course, the Shroom Pandas. It was called The War of Shrooms and Genetically Engineered Triplets, sometimes shortened to That War With the Freaks or The War on That Mountain Over There.
Anyway, the war went on for over three years. The result was one squirrel casualty, a serious chocolate crave, and millions of wounded egos. The triplets blocked off all trade with the pandas, and the pandas made snide remarks about the triplets' freakish family. One of the Shroom Pandas, a General Motstiffa-Bear, was quoted as saying, "Your brother is an alien, your sister is a ninja, and you three look exactly the same. Its freaking me out!" At that statement, one of the triplets (you can never know which one) stole the general's most rare and expensive Star Wars trading card.
After 3 2/4 years, the triplets' younger brother got irritated and ran away from home. The triplets were so astounded by the fact that their brother had emotions and was human--they had thought all along that he was just a robot made by their alien brother on his home planet--that they forgot all about the war. The Shroom Pandas were confused at first, but later relieved because they realized that after three years and a half the war wasn't really going anywhere at all. And also, due to the lapse in trade blockage, they were able to replenished their dwindling stock of cantaloupes.
For appearances, the Shroom Pandas wrote up a peace treaty which was signed by the younger alien brother of the triplets, and thus peace was restored in the mountains.