A Lobster Tail... errr... Tale

[the_vulture]

Being of maritimer descent, I have had, throughout my life, a number of interesting encounters with that quite hideous, though fairly delicious denizen of the sea, the lobster (le homard, en français).

At approximately the same time that I graduated from high school, my parents also paid off their house mortage. As such, in celebration of both events, they decided to have some lobster shipped in from the east coast of Canada for a grand feast.

During the preparations that fine summer day, I beheld, looking out the screen door, a good family friend putting lobsters (live, of course) into the large pot of boiling salt water.

Sensing he had an audience, he held one of the lobsters menacingly over the pot and, with melodramatic flair, bellowed out...

REPENT!!!

Needless to say, I was doubled over with laughter.