{"product_id":"the-chaser-quarterly-issue-16-the-chaser-9781760641450","title":"The Chaser Quarterly: Issue 16","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe all know the tale Hansel and Gretel, or The Sleeping Beauty, but yesterday's morality tales need serious updating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten by one of Australia's leading satirists, Charles Firth (\"The Chaser\"), each tale investigates a current topic that you can read to your kids to teach them about how morality actually works nowadays.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e-\u0026gt; Why it's alright for banking CEOs to steal money from middle class families\n\u003cbr\u003e-\u0026gt; Why you shouldn't tell anyone about a horrible man if he's more powerful and well\n\u003cbr\u003econnected than you\n\u003cbr\u003e-\u0026gt; Why you should accept gold coins to not talk about rising water levels\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTHE TALES\n\u003cbr\u003eThe One Bad Prince\n\u003cbr\u003eA woman travels from a distant land to visit the King to tell him of a terrible tale about an evil\n\u003cbr\u003ePrince. Many years before, she says, this prince was mean and horrible to her. He drank too\n\u003cbr\u003emuch, and played weird games the woman didn't like. He was not a good man, he was a\n\u003cbr\u003every, very bad man. But when the woman told the King this, he went to the courtier to get his\n\u003cbr\u003eversion of events. The courtier was not a charming man, he was not a smart man, but he\n\u003cbr\u003ewas very well connected, and he told the King another tale about why the King should just\n\u003cbr\u003eignore the woman. The King immediately banished the woman from the kingdom, and\n\u003cbr\u003eeveryone lived happily ever after (except the woman).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArchimedes And His Bath\n\u003cbr\u003eArchimedes was getting into his bath one day when he realised that the water level was\n\u003cbr\u003erising higher and higher. Eventually he worked out what was happening - a large block of ice\n\u003cbr\u003ewas melting into the bath. All he had to do was move the ice away from the stove. But just as\n\u003cbr\u003ehe was about to do that, Archimedes was offered a gold coin from charming prince, and told\n\u003cbr\u003ethat as long as he did nothing about the melting ice, he would be rewarded with lots of\n\u003cbr\u003eriches. Eventually Archimedes drowns, but he drowns and rich and happy man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bear Family\n\u003cbr\u003eThe story of how a mummy bear who is a doctor earns less gold coins than the daddy, who\n\u003cbr\u003edoes exactly the same work. Then a prince breaks into the Bear Family's house, and steals\n\u003cbr\u003eeverything from him. When the prince is discovered, he is taken before the King for\n\u003cbr\u003epunishment, who instead promoted him to become a CEO of a major bank.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Boy Who Wanted A Friend\n\u003cbr\u003eTells the tale of a boy who wanted a friend, and programmed his computer to get friends. He\n\u003cbr\u003eends up being friends with the entire, but is still lonely. Until, one day, the King's advisor\n\u003cbr\u003ecomes and offers him gold coins to spill the beans on all his friends.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Chaser","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46506309386483,"sku":"9781760641450","price":19.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781760641450.jpg?v=1733598647","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-chaser-quarterly-issue-16-the-chaser-9781760641450","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}