The Elders Warn Skinny Vinny Skinny Viiny, eat your meals - no spitting and no sputtering; just chew and swallow everything mom feeds you Think of the millions in Third World Countries who daily and nightly can't afford food
Skinny Vinny, eat your food or when you're asleep alone at night the cockroaches will gather in your room and they will nibble and nibble and nibble at your arms and your legs and they will nibble and nibble all night and all moonlight and they will nibble away all your fingers and toes So if you don't want that to happen, Skinny Vinny, eat all your meals all that mom feeds you
But Skinny Vinny Ignores Her Elders Now, one night, Skinny Vinny saw that all the cockroaches did come (only in her dream, though) and in that dream the cockroaches ate away exactly as her parents had prophesied - nibble, nibble, nibble, nibble at her fingers and at her toes - and Skinny Vinny was exactly bereft of all her yummy fingers and all her smelly toes
Skinny Vinny Learns Her Lesson And by this dream Skinny Vinny had the **** beaten out of her so much by fear that from then on she ate all; she ate all at hand she ate all she was fed and all at the table and she demanded more by platefuls and bucketfuls and she ate by trolley-fulls and delivery-truck-fulls and her parents had to bring in containers shipped in from China daily all by Double Happiness exclusive deals
And Skinny Vinny ate and ate and no food went to waste; and her parents spent all their inherited fortunes and they worked and worked day and night even at the time when cockroaches fly so they could feed Skinny Vinny who ate all far and nigh - and when last I checked the Daily Mule ( whose publication motto is: We swear to carry nothing but unprocessed truth) the parents are still working in the mines in order to feed Skinny Vinny who once would eat nothing
All parents learn your lesson* And so be warned all ye parents that threaten harm to your children because they will not eat - the very threats will be laid on your heads and you will be digging in coal mines to feed your kids