Once upon a time (allegedly) in a nice little forest, there lived an

orphaned bunny and an orphaned snake. By a surprising coincidence, both

were blind from birth. One day, the bunny was hopping through the

forest, and the snake was slithering through the forest, when the bunny

tripped over the snake and fell down. This, of course, knocked the snake

about quite a bit. "Oh, my," said the bunny, "I'm terribly sorry. I

didn't mean to hurt you.

I've been blind since birth, so, I can't see where I'm going. In fact,

since I'm also an orphan, I don't even know what I am."

"It's quite OK," replied the snake. "Actually, my story is much the same

as yours. I, too, have been blind since birth, and also never knew my

mother. Tell you what, maybe I could slither all over you, and work out

what you are, so at least you'll have that going for you."

"Oh, that would be wonderful" replied the bunny. So the snake slithered

all over the bunny, and said, "Well, you're covered with soft fur; you

have really long ears; your nose twitches; and you have a soft cottony

tail. I'd say that you must be a bunny rabbit."

"Oh, thank you! Thank you," cried the bunny, in obvious excitement. The

bunny suggested to the snake, "Maybe I could feel you all over with my

paw, and help you the same way that you've helped me." So the bunny felt

the snake all over, and remarked, "Well, you're smooth and slippery, and you have a forked tongue, a slitherly no backbone feel and no balls. I'd say you must be French".

(No offense meant about the no-balls business, either.