The Heist

There was once a knight who went to a week long tournament.

Each day during that tournament he would come in and tell the guard at the door:

“I am a famous thief and this tournament will not go unplundered”

These words disturbed the guard deeply as the event was full of valuable weapons and equipment.

Each day the guard would watch the knight carefully and meticulously search him after the games were over, but to no avail.

At the end of the competition the knight told the guard that he had plundered a vast supply of booty.

Greatly perplexed, the guard asked what booty was the knight talking about, since nothing was found on him.

The knight smiled and said: “I’ve been stealing strategies”


This is apparently a derivative work from one of the many  "Tao of" pages.