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- From: boutell@isis.cshl.org (Tom Boutell)
- Subject: Ballerinas du Jour
- Message-ID: <C014sr.3K6@phage.cshl.org>
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- Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Labs
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:36:26 GMT
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- For weeks my folks tittered and jittered about the nature of my
- Christmas gift from Aunt Norma. "You don't have one. We're very
- certain of this. You *don't* have one..."
-
- Christmas arrived. Chocolate was eaten. Norma's gift was
- handed to me. I opened the box.
-
- A wooden soldier, his jaw flexible, a lever on his back; smiling
- vertical rows of painted teeth. Fully a foot tall.
-
- "I was so proud of myself when I found it," said Aunt Norma.
- "It's just the thing to liven your apartment."
-
- Wonderful.
-
- My apartment is now the Nutcracker Suite.
-
- -T
-
- Sublimate the diversified peregrine
-
- --
- Tom Boutell, boutell@cshl.org
-
- Clausthaler is the best non - alcoholic beer in the known universe.
-