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Old people are very prone to do this, often in the form of a RamblingOldManMonologue. They have a lot of stories to tell.
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Old people are very prone to do this, often in the form of a RamblingOldManMonologue. They have a lot of stories to tell.
tell. This also makes it a favorite tactic of TheBore.
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-->'''Twilight:''' Do-it-yourself snake farming. Of course the farmers just released all their snakes into the wild... and thus they ended up with more poisonous snakes everywhere than when they started out.
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-->'''Twilight:''' Do-it-yourself snake farming.farming.
-->'''Celestia:''' ''(Laughing)'' I assume he ended the bounty.
-->'''Twilight:''' Yes. Of course the farmers just released all their snakes into the wild... and thus they ended up with more poisonous snakes everywhere than when they started out.
-->'''Celestia:''' ''(Laughing)'' I assume he ended the bounty.
-->'''Twilight:''' Yes. Of course the farmers just released all their snakes into the wild... and thus they ended up with more poisonous snakes everywhere than when they started out.
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-->'''Celestia:''' And that would be?"
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-->'''Celestia:''' And that would be?"be?
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* ''Fanfic/TheRiseOfDarthVulcan'': In order to get her point across about how a corrupt town fabricated natural disasters for profit, Twilight tells an old zebra story.
-->'''Twilight:''' Zekwantu was a great chieftain in the Zebra lands. He ruled many tribes. There came a time when one of their lands became overrun with poisonous snakes. Cobras. They got into the henhouses, bit foals, became a deadly nuisance. To solve the problem, Zekwantu offered a bounty of one silver bit for every cobra caught. He offered it for many years, and handed out many thousands of bits... but the problem did not lessen. In fact it only got worse. It wasn't until he investigated that he discovered that his generous reward money had funded the creation of a whole new industry in the land.
-->'''Celestia:''' And that would be?"
-->'''Twilight:''' Do-it-yourself snake farming. Of course the farmers just released all their snakes into the wild... and thus they ended up with more poisonous snakes everywhere than when they started out.
-->'''Twilight:''' Zekwantu was a great chieftain in the Zebra lands. He ruled many tribes. There came a time when one of their lands became overrun with poisonous snakes. Cobras. They got into the henhouses, bit foals, became a deadly nuisance. To solve the problem, Zekwantu offered a bounty of one silver bit for every cobra caught. He offered it for many years, and handed out many thousands of bits... but the problem did not lessen. In fact it only got worse. It wasn't until he investigated that he discovered that his generous reward money had funded the creation of a whole new industry in the land.
-->'''Celestia:''' And that would be?"
-->'''Twilight:''' Do-it-yourself snake farming. Of course the farmers just released all their snakes into the wild... and thus they ended up with more poisonous snakes everywhere than when they started out.
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* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': Most of the in-universe book ''The Way of Kings'' (which is also the [[Literature/TheWayOfKings title of the first book in the series]]) consists of parables from the author's life, similar to the Bible. The book became the foundation of the [[KnightInShiningArmor Knights Radiant]] and was required reading for every Alethi ruler, but then the knights fell, and the Alethi went from a ProudWarriorRace to {{Blood Knight}}s. By the time of the story, it's considered nearly blasphemous for such things as suggesting that sometimes there are better solutions than killing everyone.
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* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': Most of the in-universe book ''The Way of Kings'' (which is also the [[Literature/TheWayOfKings [[Literature/TheWayOfKings2010 title of the first book in the series]]) consists of parables from the author's life, similar to the Bible. The book became the foundation of the [[KnightInShiningArmor Knights Radiant]] and was required reading for every Alethi ruler, but then the knights fell, and the Alethi went from a ProudWarriorRace to {{Blood Knight}}s. By the time of the story, it's considered nearly blasphemous for such things as suggesting that sometimes there are better solutions than killing everyone.
