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- From: grendel@canetoad.UUCP (Rage y Romance)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: The Corn of Joy and Sorrow
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <grendel.048c@canetoad.UUCP>
- References: <1992Nov22.044245.16639@deeptht.armory.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 23:37:32 EDT
- Organization: The Satellite of Love
- Lines: 87
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- In article <1992Nov22.044245.16639@deeptht.armory.com> crisper@deeptht.armory.com (Crisper Than Thou) writes:
-
- > ...I ask her if she thinks she could find out, from Jessica,
- where Jessica's sister is. Where could I write to her?
-
- Heh.
- Reminds me of a phone call I got a few years back for my sister.
- She was engaged to be married and we no longer lived in the same
- house. Phone rings, its a old flame.
-
- Me: Speak.
-
- Old Flame: Huh...hello? I'm calling for, um Stephanie.
-
- Me: I'm sorry, she's not here at the moment. Perhaps you would
- like to leave a message?
-
- O.F: Yeah, sure. Can you tell her that Frank called.
-
- Me: Frank who.
-
- O.F: Huh, just a friend she used to date. I was just calling
- to see how she was doing.
-
- (Ahhhh, NOW I remember this guy. Dick-boy-extraordinaire. I let a
- long silence fill some space between my heavy breathing.)
-
- O.F: Hello? Hello?
-
- Me: Frank...Do you know who this is?
-
- (More silence)
-
- O.F: I...I think so.
-
- Me: Who is this Frank?
-
- O.F: (in a small dejected voice) It's Grendel.
-
- Me: That's right Frank. And what do we remeber about the last
- time we spoke?
-
- (A big weary sigh from Ole Frank)
-
- O.F: You said that if I came around or called again you'd
- behead me.
-
- Me: And what else Frankie?
-
- (mumbling)
-
- O.F: You would remove and tan my stomach and use it as a practice
- football.
-
- Me: Did you think I was joking Frank?
-
- O.F: .....No.
-
- Me: So why'd you call Frank.
-
- O.F: I was hoping you were dead or something.
-
- Me:(laughing) Good one Frank but all it means to me is that you
- want to die young. Now far be it for me to change your mind
- about a slow, lingering, painful death but what kind of
- person are you that you would deprive your mother of all
- that quality sex.
-
- O.F: YOU #$$%%$$#!!! IF I EVER SEE YOU #$$@%&&*%$ I'LL...
-
- (Blah, blah, blah.)
-
- Me: Gee, if that's the way you feel about it I guess I won't
- give Steph that message. Golly, ya try to do someone a
- favor and this is the thanks you get.
-
- Now Stephanie is married and just gave me a 7 3/8 lbs. baby nephew
- and when I tell her these things she laughs and says to her
- husband, "Man, I'm glad I met you in Canada."
-
- --
- "...Sometimes piecing together ideas | ...uunet!canetoad!grendel
- as though making a collage cut | canetoad!grendel@uunet.uu.net
- from a magazine. Hoping that my |------------------------------
- random non sequiturs will appear as great intellectual leaps.
- Which, of course, they do." Joe Frank's Work in Progress "Iceland"
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