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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
Gee, I sure could use another installment of this. Maybe if I close my eyes and wish really hard....
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crikey, it worked !!!!
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Originally Posted by pshrynk
the newly formed Union of People Who really Don't Want to Work for a Living
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i'm a member of that union !
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there was no human being more keenly matched to his chosen sport than Roger, Comte de Bois Aussi, Gold Medalist in 1928 in Individual, Team, and Freestyle Sauntering!
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naturally. the french invented sauntering and even raised it to a level of art and made it "a referent for understanding urban phenomena and modernity"*. (*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A2neur see also references to Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin).
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Originally Posted by pshrynk
"Nonsense!" barked Hilda, "He said to push the red button and run like hell was after you!"
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ah, a detonator designed on the pshrynk school of Buttonry.
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They stood and shuffled their feet for a few minutes. "Nothing!" said Hilda. "You just can't get good help these days!"
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it's a travesty !
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"My dear, I do believe that what he said was 'Do not push the red button,' otherwise, why would there be a green and a blue button next to it?"
"Decoration? Maybe he had a design esthetic."
"True, he is French."
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the design esthetic is the most important element of a detonator, of course.
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Just then the Cuban National Synchronized Sauntering Team marched by. Hilda noted that they were synching on the off-beat rather than on the time. She snorted again. Modernists!
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"Get away you filthy beast!"
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hey !! no saunterer of that class could ever be a filthy beast !!!
...ooooh, right. sorry, my mistake.
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Originally Posted by psockpuppet
"I thought that was why you had the safety pin."
"That's a fashion statement." Hugo sighed.
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you know, people just don't *get* punk rock anymore.