A squad of American soldiers is stationed in Iraq. When an explosive device is found by the road, their job is to guard it and make sure it doesn't go off until an expert can arrive and disarm it properly. Their job is a boring one, so a young private named Benjamin gets a clever idea. He catches a poisonous snake, names him Nate, and trains Nate to be a ""guard snake."" When they are called in to guard a bomb, Nate is released near the weapon and his presence is enough to drive off any passers …

Nate the Snake A truck driver is heading west across the Arizona desert. He has been driving all night, and as the sun starts to rise, he feels the need to stop and commune with nature. He pulls to the side of the road, parks, and walks out into the sage brush. As he is standing there, looking around at the beauty of the early morning, he notices a lever sticking out of the ground. After a few moments, he walks over, walks all the way around, and then reaches out to grasp the lever. Just as he d…

Once, there was a snake named Nathan. All of his friends, however, called him Nate. One day, Nate was slithering along the middle of the road, when he came across a large lever, placed directly in the middle of the road. On this large lever, someone had placed a sign that read, ""Do Not Pull Lever: THE WORLD WILL END!!!"" As Nate sat there, in the middle of the road, pondering the urgency created by using three exclamation points on the sign, there came a car speeding down the road. At the wheel…

[REQUEST] Your favorite long, maybe a bit TOO long, but worth it joke. Every day I read the bounty of /jokes, and maybe once a month I see a new one. It fills me with such joy. Also, I work with this amazing fellow who tells these 20 minute jokes, and I am almost out of return-fire ammunition. See, I love long jokes, story jokes, and there seems to be a paucity of them around here. Not just Shaggy Dog stories, feghoots and the like, but nicely crafted slammers. I'd link some examples, but they'r…