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- From: callahan@biffvm.cs.jhu.edu (Paul Callahan)
- Subject: A Shocking Confession
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.183011.28337@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Sender: news@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Usenet news system)
- Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:30:11 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- I have six illegitimate children--all by a potted cayenne pepper plant in
- my apartment. That's it. That's all I have to say. I just couldn't keep
- quiet about it. I have *no* excuses. I accept *full* responsibility.
-
- Well... except for... but I realize that's no excuse. *We* are all free. We
- decide what to *make* of our lives. Still, four years of isolation from women,
- living in a lonely basement apartment, having only spiders to talk to. It
- could happen to the best of us. Yes, who could possibly resist? Could any
- of *you*? I don't think so. I dare any one of you to suggest otherwise.
- I *dare* you!
-
- Anyway, she, I mean, it, I mean... the plant wanted it more than I did. It
- was pure *charity* on my part. Was I to let the flowers bloom and die,
- unfulfilled? I ask you, was I? *Was* I? It could have easily happened
- by accident. Was I to avoid touching the plant at all? Oh yes, so easy
- for you to stand up on your soapbox, but I had to *water* it. Is that what
- you're saying, that I should have denied water to a dear and innocent little
- pepper plant? You heartless bastards! And if I just happened to give it a
- little conscious help, a gentle twist of the index finger... Surely I can't
- be blamed for such a thing. It was inevitable! Yes, *inevitable*!
-
- Now I know you're thinking, "He's had his fun. Let him pay for it." But,
- who has ever heard of marrying a plant? It just isn't done. I'd do anything
- to make good on it, but society refuses to let me.
-
- Oh the shame!
-
- --
- "I would rather be torn to pieces by the poison-clawed cat, than to suffer one
- instant of acceptance by the resident intellectuals of rec.arts.books."
- (slightly modified; attribution left as an exercise to the reader.)
-
-