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From: elag <elag@cloud9.net>
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Subject: Re: H0llyw00d Flatlands
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 11:16:07 -0400
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Paul Heslop wrote:
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> > > > > > > > > > > elag wrote:
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > > Any other interesting thing ever happen at the woolmill?
> > > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > > :O) There was method in our madness. The cartons had to be in the bay to
> > > > > > > > > > > > > be destroyed, where the wool was coming into the mill by crane and was
> > > > > > > > > > > > > hardly ever on the ground level for long.
> > > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > > I see. I so liked the idea of climbing mountains of wool...
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > Yeah, sometimes it was kind of fun, but the money was very very bad.
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Baa-aa-aa-aad?
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > I was foreman and I could hardly feed myself.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I Sheepishly admit that it was just another one of my Baa Baa Baad jokes.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I'm resisting telling another one now about forks.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > <must bite tongue>
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Never liked tongue myself, specially since I lost my teeth!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Oh, a tongue is far more useful, but it doesn't make as good a necklace.
> > > > > > I really do think that a big old cow's tongue looks quite nice,
> > > > > > especially in a cow's mouth.
> > > > >
> > > > > Probably tastes much better then too :O)
> > > >
> > > > Once I imagined a poet trapped in a cow's body:
> > > >
> > > > "Ah... never to chew sweet cud again... sweet grass... sweet sweet
> > > > grass, alas..."
> > >
> > > "Alas, I'll pass, for the best rhyme for grass is
> > > ass"
> >
> > Heh... You wouldn't make much of a rap star. Once I wrote a Gangsta rap
> > parody something like this...
> >
> > "Expletive D-Leeted"
> >
> > You ain't nothin'
> > but a mother[bleep]er
> > Who ain't worth [bleep]ing with
> >
> > You on my [bleep] list
> > I'm gonna [bleep] ya
> > with the end of my [bleep]in' fist
> > you [bleep]
> >
> > [bleep] my [bleep]in' [bleep]
> >
> > The best rhyme for grass is Mamma Cass...
> > a close second is striped bass (fish)...
> > another good one is the old Soviet news agency, TASS.
>
> Heh, that last verse is cool enough to make it :O)
I bet there aren't too many good raps about TASS.
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> > >
> > > > > > I think we need a few more funny looking cars like bug eyed sprites,
> > > > > > Fiat 100s and Citroen 2CVs to counterbalance the bane of SUVs.
> > > > >
> > > > > Yeah, Bonds were never popular on the scale of Reliant, but there were
> > > > > odd ones on the road and the Bond Bug became at least reasonably
> > > > > successful. Of course designing a car with cloth doors in britain is
> > > > > suicidal!
> > > > > My personal favourite for weird was these
> > > > > http://www.andmas.co.uk/travel_new/bubble/bubble.htm
> > > > > My uncle went on his honeymoon in one! You climb in by opening the whole
> > > > > front of the car.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, I was trying to come up w/ that one. I likethem... perfect for
> > > > driving from the front to the back yard. Seriously, they make a perfect
> > > > city car for you can park 2 to a space.
> > >
> > > You must like the Smart Cars then?
> >
> > They are very interesting. If I wanted a city vehicle I'd probably
> > stick w/ a mini cooper or VW Beetle. My dream car would run on smog and
> > be covered in honeysuckle vines and the exhaust would exude the
> > fragrance of ripe peaches.
>
> :O) You like the new Mini Cooper or the classic? I'm kinda fifty fifty.
The new one is very nice and true to it's roots. The old is okay too,
if you don't mind a used car. Either way it's hard to beat in Manhattan
w/ its lack of street parking.
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