“Pip” (the mini drag?) was Alan Dean Foster. Skeeve’s dragon was “Gleep” (who did talk at some point in the series). Man, I should dig around and find some of these books again. Its been years, if not decades, since I read any of them!
Looks like that grew into something nice for him. I mean geese, what luck! Seems like a dairy good trade, and all in all I am in udder awe of the results. So if any of you have bad thoughts about him, just leaf it.
I don’t know, but I think Jack would have been better off to sell the beans. Think about it, a thousand feet of giant beans, dry them, and they keep forever. A fortune to be made, solve hunger in the nation, probably never worry about food again.
If the full story was told, the moral would be more obvious… Jack jeeps going back for things, the final object is a harp that sings… it gets him caught and he nearly dies. That is *why* he chops down the stalk finally.
Moral: Greed is bad, if you get lucky, be grateful and don’t push it!
And then Jack chopped down what was the world’s last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant’s children didn’t have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done…which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.
Well, in the ancient Greek myth-cycles, weren’t all of those “heroes” doing nothing less than plundering & pillaging? The *people* couldn’t tell any difference between heroes & villains back then…
Use this ONE SIMPLE TRICK to…
…grow your stalk.
well you win!
…. to get rich going green.
…grow your own & reduce your grocery bill.
Be careful where you throw your magic beans or it will end up as
“Another Vine Myth You’ve Gotten Me Into”
In memory of Robert Asprin whose myth’s were as good as a hit.
I must have mythed that one.
The last of the Myth Inc. books read was the one where Pip finally spoke (not even sure if there were any more after that one :()
Another Vine Myth… etc., is a riff on Asprin’s first Myth book, Another Fine Myth.
Yes, understood that, like said, read everything until the book where Pip (or whatever the dragon was called) spoke
“Pip” (the mini drag?) was Alan Dean Foster. Skeeve’s dragon was “Gleep” (who did talk at some point in the series). Man, I should dig around and find some of these books again. Its been years, if not decades, since I read any of them!
Then you really mythed out.
Looks like that grew into something nice for him. I mean geese, what luck! Seems like a dairy good trade, and all in all I am in udder awe of the results. So if any of you have bad thoughts about him, just leaf it.
Love Byron’s face for your avatar! He’s probably bean privy to enough puns by now to last him a lifetime. XD
I don’t know, but I think Jack would have been better off to sell the beans. Think about it, a thousand feet of giant beans, dry them, and they keep forever. A fortune to be made, solve hunger in the nation, probably never worry about food again.
Or learn a recipe for bean stalk soup, then open a restaurant…
I thought the moral was ‘If you’re broke, you can always turn to crime’.
Yep, nick stuff from evil man-eating rich folk who live on clouds. Just don’t get caught doing it, or they’ll try and eat you to.
Now the question is if the giant didn’t grind up folks and eat them?
The answer to your question: Yes.
Didn’t the giant openly talk about grinding the bones of Englishmen to make his bread?
If the full story was told, the moral would be more obvious… Jack jeeps going back for things, the final object is a harp that sings… it gets him caught and he nearly dies. That is *why* he chops down the stalk finally.
Moral: Greed is bad, if you get lucky, be grateful and don’t push it!
Byron’s not the best storyteller…
Didn’t someone eventually chop up the goose looking for the source of the gold? Or was that a different story with a golden-egg laying goose?
The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, is a separate tale. The farmer that has the goose cuts it open to find the source of the eggs and finds nothing.
The moral, of course, being “don’t look a magical goose in the uterus”.
And keep that goose away from the males! Who knows what kind of horrors a *fertilized* golden egg would hatch?!
A self-renewing supply of mecha-ducks!
And then Jack chopped down what was the world’s last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant’s children didn’t have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done…which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.
Don’t you quote Prachett at me young missy!
Somebody reads Pratchett. Heh.
The Giant’s wife later sued Jack for “stalking”
Well, in the ancient Greek myth-cycles, weren’t all of those “heroes” doing nothing less than plundering & pillaging? The *people* couldn’t tell any difference between heroes & villains back then…
“To the hills! Here come the heroes!”
Values dissonance buddy, values dissonance
you forgot about the singing harp that gave prosperity and fertility to the land