Silly Tails

Why is it that no one has ever heard vegetables talk?

You see, it all started back in the days when the vegetables lived in a vegetable garden on the opposite side of a hedge from a band of rabbits who lived peacefully munching grass.

The carrots were particularly obnoxious and could not refrain from hurling insults at the rabbits.

What happened next supplies the long-awaited answer.

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