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A Donut's Last Words (Bonus Marks if You Can Name the Allusions)
	"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering Lit kid; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee.
	For the love of God, Sarra! (Poe didn't really write "Sarra")
	let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open. . . Learn it to the younguns.
	No--no--don't tech me--leave me be--leave me be. . . . Leave me be, can't yeh? Leave me be fer a minnit. . . . Leave me be--don't tech me--leave me
	Eat me to-morrow; let me live to-night! . . .
	Take me to the window. Let me look at the moors--or Day and Night Foods-- with you once more, my darling. Once more.
	The rest is silence
	Yes, that was death. I died--and I awoke. Yes, digestion is an awakening.
	Forward comrades! . . . Forward in the name of the Rebellion!
	I will into the vale of The Colon to heal me of my grievous wound: and if thou hear never more of me, pray for my soul

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Sunday, November 21, 2004

Alas, Poor Hooded Thunder

The Gnome shattered in English the other day. I laughed. The winning vote was for the name "Hooded Thunder." Perhaps that can be emblazoned on his ceramic headstone.

4 Comments:

Anne said...: this is the saddest news i have heard all day. possibly all life time.; 10:04 PM
Ayla said...: Mr. Carson, you are a cruel heartless man.; 7:49 AM
cherylf said...: Maybe we could get a new gnome and tell everyone that it went to the farm to live with grandma and grandpa like when we were kids and our dog died.; 9:28 AM
Ruth said...: It is high time I paid my respects to Hooded Thunder. So...um....May he rest in peace (where do Gnomes go when they die? Some sort of mini-section of Heaven where the clouds are ceramic? Alas, I do not know...Milton would know the answer!).; 4:52 PM

Top Reasons To Not Accept Free Government Chocolate
	Like most government-issue items, government chocolate is usually a powerful laxative in a fancy wrapper
	Government chocolate's uniform shape comes from its being passed through the digestive tract of a 9 foot badger
	The first time you get called down to the office it's for "free" chocolate, sure. But next time, who knows? Probably "just for fun" spankings.
	The government chocolate factory ran out of chocolate five years ago.
	"Government Chocoloate Factory?!" 'nuff said.
	Several Oompah Loompahs were just appointed to cabinet positions, so who is running the factory?
	Eating too much government chocolate renders you incapable of completin

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How did you do on the Provincial Exam?
	Great!!!
	Pretty well !!
	I defied several physical laws by simultaneously sucking and blowing!
	I wonder if McDonalds is still hiring sandwich board people?
	That easy was. What inversion is?
	I choked on a donut and couldn't write.
	Fine. I wrote about Shakespeare's Paradise Lost, and Milton's King Leer.
	I thought there was a written part on the exam.
	The gnome outscored me, as did several single-celled organisms left behind in the nasal discharge of the last student to use the cubicle.
	I thnk i did purdy wel. As Longe ass speling dont count. Yep.

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Sunday, November 21, 2004

Alas, Poor Hooded Thunder

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