Joe the fisherman and his dog Stupid were the sorriest pair one could ever lay their eyes upon. Joe, with his torn dungarees and TooL shirt faded beyond recognition, carried a putrid stench around wherever he went. His beady eyes and scraggly facial growth gave an unfavorable impression to any passerby he might encounter.

His dog Stupid, with a mangled left ear and body infested with who knows what, was probably the ugliest- and stupidest- dog ever born. To put it nicely, they were both a couple of jackasses. Ever since they had migrated from the desolate junkyard called Orient (in fear of attack by inbreds), they had been living a miserable life in a miserable little shack by the water. All they owned was a miserable little boat, always threatening to fall apart on them, in which they went out in every day looking for some food. It was all really, well...miserable!

One day Joe and Stupid found their fishing expedition carrying them far out to sea in search of food. The pair had not had much luck (as usual), and every scoop of their net and cast of their makeshift rod brought them nothing more than junk. Finally, on one ill-fated scoop of the net, Joe came up with some repulsive looking slime and seaweed, a bottle, and a little clam. Stupid, being stupid like he was, attempted to eat the clam, shell and all, in his frenzied excitement. Suddenly, a great rumbling arose from inside the clam, startling both Joe and Stupid.

The rumbling got louder, the clam started to rattle, and suddenly, with a huge leap, the clam surged out of the boat and under the surface of the calm blue water. Moments later, however, it came roaring back up through the surface; but the little clam was not so little anymore. Standing at least 20 feet tall was what could best be described as a humongous clam, but with eyes and a mouth.

Suddenly, it bellowed "I am Habib, the Clam of Fruitiness" in a singsong manner, showing exactly why he was so fruity. Joe and Stupid, being not so bright, were too slow to have been shocked yet, so Joe replied "Uh, hey how ya doing? I'm Joe, and this is my dog, Stupid." The fruity clam began to rap his reply. "Hey Joe and Stupid, nice to meet ya, now I got a special way to greet ya. If one of you, can pass my quiz, then I just might, let ya live!"

Now Joe was scared, not because their lives had just been threatened, but because the clam was such a horrendous rapper. The clam began his terrible rapping again. "Question 1, out of 3, what is it that grows on a tree?" Joe, of course, had no answer; he was petrified because the clam was still rapping. But then Stupid, finally realizing how horrible the clam was, started barking at him in an effort to make him stop; "Bark, bark!"

The clam, startled at Stupid's correctness, said "hey you're, a pretty smart dog, but next time you, might be wrong. So here ya go, number 2 is, what's on top of, where ya live?" Joe was now wishing the clam would go ahead and kill them, just to put them out of their misery. But Stupid was getting pretty pissed off, so he started screaming "Ruff, ruff!"

Now the clam, sensing his chance at victory, made his last attempt. "You stupid dog, you are so fake, so why not tell me, the sound an owl makes?" Joe finally snapped out of his repulsion, realizing that he knew this one. "Uh, it's like ho-"; but suddenly Stupid could take no more, and started howling in disgust.

And that was the end of Joe and Stupid. The clam put the smack down so hard they ended up in space, permanently among the stars. So that is why we now see at night the constellation Orion near Canis Major and Minor. Joe (Orion) is chasing Stupid (Canis Major and Minor) because due to Stupid's stupidity, he is forced to live in eternal hell, listening to that bastard clam rap...forever.