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- From: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
- Subject: Re: New Year Pizza Party
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.164755.19399@news.columbia.edu>
- Sender: usenet@news.columbia.edu (The Network News)
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- Reply-To: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
- Organization: Columbia University
- References: <1992Dec31.003841.20212@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <105850@bu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:47:55 GMT
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- The Lamplighter says, "Hey! A party! Be right back!" and zips out
- the door. He leaps back in dressed in exactly the same clothes -- but in
- color! To entirely describe his outfit would take a long time, but he has
- replaced his traditional all-black wardrobe with chartreuse sneakers,
- vertically striped pants of all colors, a checkered multicolored shirt, and
- an overcoat and top hat that appear to be made entirely of patches of
- different materials.
-
- "Happy New Year!" he shouts to everybody ... "Who are you?" He has
- nearly run into an old man with an hourglass, who is sitting at a table
- writing with a quill pen in a book.
-
- "Father Time," says the man with the white hair and long white beard.
- His hourglass has almost run out, and he is writing on the book's last page.
-
- "Oh. You haven't shown up to turn this post into another one of
- those depressing, serious things that I've been writing lately, have you?"
-
- "No," says Time. "I'm just writing."
-
- "Okay." The Lamplighter wanders around, eats pizza, drinks
- beverages, sings songs, and basically has a good time. When the clock
- strikes midnight, he shouts gleefully, "Happy New Year!" along with everybody
- else.
-
- The old man turns the hourglass over, and closes his book. It has
- "1992" printed on its spine. He carefully puts it away in a carry-bag next
- to his chair, and takes out another, with blank pages.
-
- ---==--===-+===++==+++=*+++**++***+****#****+***++**+++*=+++==++===+-===--==---
- The Lamplighter |"Everybody here
- (Tom Lee) | Seen the changing of the year ..."
- |
- tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu | -- The Guess Who, "Hand Me Down"
-