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Having exposed the nefarious book writing conspiracy the detective turned his attention to the mystery of where socks went once they entered the dryer.
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They're abducted by the puppet master of sock puppets.
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Marvin had read that a glass of wine a day is good for your health – practically medicinal – so for the past two years he had been trying to make up for a decade of non-medicinal beer consumption by getting through one bottle each night and anyway Marvin had always firmly believed that more of a good thing made said thing better though he felt that life had not offered him a fair share of opportunities to systematically test his theory.
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Harvey had always wanted to marry a Catherine, and had finally found the woman of his dreams, though there was something about Katherine that made him uneasy.
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It was all true: The villain was dead, the dog barked in the night, and my pajamas were too tight, so where should I begin my story about obsession gone horribly wrong?
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The headless man walked slowly down the street as if looking for his missing cranium.
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True, it was unfortunate that the alien’s little doughnut-shaped space ship had landed right in the middle of a tray of freshly-baked pastries and goodies sitting on the counter; but the most truly unfortunate turn of events was having a shop that was extremely busy that day with hungry customers.
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Dan spent a long time building his interstellar communications device and working out a translator for the alien language, and it was only then that he could release his anger with a strongly worded letter demanding compensation for the dental costs after chipping his teeth on the alien’s little doughnut-shaped spaceship.
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Having received a letter from the solarian star system demanding compensation for a chipped bicuspid Rojan the green laid plans to invade and destroy the culture of the third planet.
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The authorities couldn't decide whether to shower Dan with accolades for being the first person to establish contact with an alien race, or whether to sentence him to something nasty for starting the first intergalactic war - to which Dan replied, with something of a lisp thanks to his broken teeth, "I didn't thtart it, they did, the horrible little doughnut imitating midgetth!"
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In principle, Fred should have loved police work under the new regime of Emperor Rojan the Green: back to proper old-time policing, no need anymore for all that hippie commie lesbo civil rights bs (when asked about police brutality in a TV interview, the Emperor had looked very puzzled and replied: "But that is the point, isn't it?"), and the creative penalties those little green bastards came up with were a joy to behold - but all that couldn't make up for the ban on doughnuts, which Fred, like most of his colleagues, had finally stopped resisting after the prime time live deep frying of an entire New York precinct.
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Please don't let this interruption disturb the ongoing first-sentence story of the doughnut-aliens, but the NanoWriMo thread inspired this:
Bart stood back and surveyed the blackboards, realising that he could do the unexpected and publish a novel before Lisa did; in stark white on black he was surrounded by a complete NanoWriMo project, "I must write a ten word sentence five thousand times." |
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He really hadn't expected that using Comic Sans for his mother's obituary would turn out to be such a grave mistake; to think how angry he had been at his sister for her veto against the winking smilie...
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