Jokes With New Punchlines #1: The Brass Rat

A man walks into an antique store, and starts looking around.  All of a sudden he spies a beautiful brass rat in the corner.  He falls in love with it, and so he takes it to the cashier.

“The rat, eh?” says the old grizzly cashier.

“Uh, yeah…how much?” replies the man.

“Well, it’s ten bucks for the rat… but 200 dollars for the story behind it,” he replies.

“I’ll just take the rat, without the story,” says the customer.

“Okay… but don’t say I didn’t warn ya!” growls the old cashier.

He leaves the store, his precious brass rat tucked under his arm.  Soon he begins to notice that a few rats are following him.  He walks a couple more blocks and the number of rats behind him increases. This continues, until there are literally millions of rats behind him.

Afraid of this mass of rats following him, the man runs to the sea and throws  the brass rat in.  All of the rats plunge in after it, and meet their watery deaths.

The man runs back to the antique store. The old cashier chuckles to himself and says, “So now do you want the story?”

“No,” replies the man, “I want my money back, you motherfucking moron.”