Moral: Don't stand up in a boat.
I know a different version of this one. it's still long...
Two middle-school friends were walking towards school. While trying to invent new insults, one of them says:
"Oh, and never say 'purple flower', ever!"
"Are you kidding me? Why not?"
"You NEVER say that, okay?"
later that day, at school, the math teacher gives a surprise test. The boys are caught while trying to cheat and the teacher gets them
"Well, boys, it seems i'm going to give you the lowest grade possible..."
"Aww, shi... I mean..uuuh.. purple flower!" said the student
"What??? To the principal's office, NOW!'"
at the principal....
"What is it, kid?"
"My teacher sent me here because I said purple flower..."
"EXPELLED! OUT OF MY SCHOOL!"
The kid goes home crying.
"Mom, dad, I got expelled!"
"What!? Why?!?"
"Because I said purple flower..."
"WHHHHAAAAAATTT? Out of the house, you monster! You are not our son!""
saddened, the kid walked to a neighbor's house.
"Hey, kid, what are you doing here? shouldn't you be at school?"
"yeah, but i got expelled because I said purple flower..."
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH! HEEEEELP! POLICE! CALL 911!'
The Police comes, hears the kid saying purple flower again, and throw him into a police van filled with criminals, ready to go to the penitentiary. In the van, the prisoners were bragging:
"I killed 10 people!"
"I stole a million dollars!"
"I raped a hundred girls!"
"I... I said purple flower..."
All the prisoners try to get away from him, scared.
After 25 years of prison, he gets out, gets a life, a family, etc, but one night, after too much beer at the local bar, he bragged about gonig to jail for saying "purple flower" and everyone in the bar stops and stares at him.
"What? Seriously now, what the hell is purple flower???""
Everyone leaves the bar.
Annoyed, he leaves the bar too, and sees a hobo on the other side of the road. Determined to find out what purple flower is, he crosses the road... but a car hits him.
Moral: look both ways when crossing the street.