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- From: dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Thomas A. Dennis)
- Subject: Re: Working the Week Before Jesus' Birthday
- References: <1992Dec23.175342.28520@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <18235@autodesk.COM>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 04:37:21 GMT
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- In <18235@autodesk.COM> booter@Autodesk.COM (Elaine Richards) writes:
-
- >!Peeve: I got a new sweater. Its very cute. It is a cute, femmy sweater
- >that is also a note to the world that I am a nerd. The sweater has
- >cute little racoons on it. Racoons are nerds of the animal world.
- >They stay up all night, have dark circles around their eyes, and eat
- >garbage. Yup, that's me all right. I also wash my food before I eat
- >it.
-
- Nerds? No, not by a long shot. Raccoons are cool. Remember _Rascal_, by
- Sterling North? Boy living in Wisconsin around the time of the First World
- War adopts a baby raccoon as a pet, and is heartbroken when he has to get rid
- of it after the 'coon grows up and bites him in a fit of sublimated
- horniness? Look at it from the raccoon's POV: he lives the posh life for a
- year and kicks loose when he gets tired of the punk.
-
- The nerd of the animal world, IMHO, is the opossum. Uglier than a rat and
- twice as stupid... I had a possum come into my house once and crawl under my
- bed, and into the box springs, for absolutely no reason whatsoever--the only
- edible thing that I kept in my room was coffee. The only reason that I didn't
- kill him was that I had no practical means of doing so that wouldn't cover the
- floor with possum blood.
-
- !Peeve: _Where the Red Fern Grows_. In a nutshell: boy raises two coon dogs,
- one of 'em gets disemboweled--by a mountain lion, I believe--and the other one
- pines away. When our fourth-grade teacher read it aloud to us in class, two
- girls were bawling openly by the end; me, I felt that justice had been done.
- Coon-killers--being gutted was too good for 'em.
-
- Oh, lest I forget--happy holidays, the ones that are left, anyway.
- --
- >---<
-
- Tom Dennis | "I have seen all the works that are done
- dennis@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu | under the sun; and, behold, all is
- (217)384-2504 | vanity and vexation of spirit."
-