There was this scientist on the coast, who was working on a serum 
for immortality. He was using secretly using dolphins as his test
subjects, because they were an intelligent species, they were 
mammals, and society wouldn't miss them if he accidentally killed 
them. He was, however, to some degree successful. 

He could get these dolphins to live for a truly abnormally long 
time, perhaps even tripling their original life span. He had 
noticed over a period of quite a few years that their bodies had 
shown no signs of aging at all. The problem that existed was 
simple.  The serum had to be made from the brain casings of 
freshly killed baby seagulls. If a single day went by that the 
dolphins didn't get the medication, they would surely die, 
ruining years of research. He was working on a synthetic 
substitute for the tissue he required, but this had proven to be 
very difficult.  Fortunately he knew where a nesting ground for 
seagulls were, and every morning he would go down to the ocean, 
and gather up several gulls in a bag and return to the lab.

One particular morning he went about his seagull-kidnapping 
routine, which he had gotten to be quite good at over the years,
everything was going along as usual, until he was on his was 
home. He was driving inland when he heard on the radio that two 
fierce lions had escaped from the state zoo. He didn't think 
anything of it. He didn't think that it would affect HIS life at 
all. But, sure enough, being a plot device and all, the two 
lions were fast asleep on the doorstep to the lab when he got 
there. He hesitated for a minute, but he knew he was running out 
of time. He had to get inside, years of work, and his dolphins 
depended on it. 

So he approached the lab. Slowly, carefully, quietly, he stepped 
over the first lion. Then slowly, carefully, he succeeded in 
stepping over the other.

Then the police showed up and busted him.

You know why, don't you?

He was transporting young gulls over state lions for immortal porpoises!

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