The little boy who cried Derampers

There once was a little shepherd boy with a girl's name who was bored as he sat on the hillside watching the MoneyAM charts. To amuse himself he took a great breath and sang out, "Derampers! Derampers! The Derampers are shorting the shares!"

The BBers came running up the hill to help the boy drive the shorters away. But when they arrived at the top of the hill, they found nothing worth buying anyway. The foolish little boy laughed at the sight of their angry faces.

"Don't cry 'Derampers', little boy," said the BBers, "when there's no Derampers!" They went grumbling back down the hill.

Later, the little boy sang out again, "Derampers! Derampers! The shorters are chasing the sheep!" To his naughty delight, he watched the BBers run up the hill to help him drive the derampers away.

When the BBers saw nothing worth buying they sternly said, "Save your frightened song for when there is really something wrong! Don't cry 'derampers' when you've bought a pile of shite penny stock and you're watching the price decay even further before your very eyes"

But the silly little boy just grinned and watched them go grumbling down the hill once more.

Later, he saw a REAL shorter targetting about his only good share. Alarmed, he leaped to his feet and sang out as loudly as he could, "Shorters! Shorters!"

But the BBers thought he was trying to fool them again, and so they didn't come.

At sunset, everyone wondered why the little boy hadn't returned to the village with some loose change. They went up the hill to find the boy. They found him weeping.

"There really was a shorter here! The price has plumetted! I can't afford my bus fare home! I cried out, "Shorters!" Why didn't you come?"

An old man tried to comfort the boy as they walked back to the village.

"We'll have a whip round for you in the morning," he said, putting his arm around the youth, "Nobody believes a liar like you, SueHelen...even when he is telling the truth!"

No worries, G - Mr Simpson aka moon language interpreter will ruck up shortly.

Ok analyse this ---
"The Sketch"- your cartoon - stop it, it`s silly and out of date, also the shepherd boys are all dead, ok so far ?The wolves are all gone!
"De-ramping " is a non-word, stop using it.
Your cardie needs patching , get it seen to before it falls apart.

The moon is irrelevant- but not to you ?

Ohhh dear

Blinger - I beg, sir, to differ

Out of date? The story is timeless. Remember - those who don't learn from their past mistakes are doomed forever to repeat them. Even if "the shepherd boys are all dead". they'll be replaced - high on the hill stands a lonely goatherd.

Deramping? Not a word? Is that a reason not to use it? Don't be such a twonk.

Cardie? threadbare? But I got a new one for christmas.

Moon? Irrelevant? Clearly not to the select few who have English as a second language to their lunar mothertongue.

G

Think you might be pushing it with twonk though - couldn't find it in my dictionary.