A King brings forth three men.. A King brings forth three men whom have been sentenced to death. He has a strange sense of humour and, having not had a good laugh in awhile, decides to use these three as his source of entertainment. He tells each man to gather twelve of one type of fruit and bring it back. They scurry away to find their fruits. The first man arrives with twelve apples. ""You must push all of your twelve apples into your anus without making a facial expression. If you make any expression, I will kill you."" So, the first man began pushing apples up his rectum. By the eighth one, he screamed in pain. He was beheaded. The second man arrives with twelve strawberries. For no particular reason, he starts laughing hysterically as he inserted the last strawberry. The king beheads him the same as he did the other man. In Heaven, the two men meet and the first man asks the second man why he started laughing when he was so close to being able to live. He replied, ""I couldn't help it when I saw the other guy tugging twelve pineapples behind him.""