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- From: phantasm@iastate.edu ()
- Subject: Regarding Lauren's Valentine's Day Personal Ad...
- Message-ID: <phantasm.727988678@vincent1.iastate.edu>
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:04:38 GMT
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- Greetings all...
-
- crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford):
-
- > Hi. I'm not too young, not too old, with long blond hair. Unless you
- > prefer dark brown hair, in which case it's dark brown. Sometimes it's
- > short. And red...
-
- And so on...
-
- Lauren, this is great...
-
- If any of the rest of you thought so, you may enjoy the following, which has
- been floating around the net for some time now...
-
- What I do in my spare time:
-
- I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing
- ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch
- breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention.
- I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning
- operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread water for
- three days in a row.
-
- I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I
- can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and
- I can cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an
- expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.
-
- Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once
- single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from
- a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was
- scouted by the Mets. I am the subject of numerous documentaries.
- When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I
- enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair
- electrical appliances free of charge.
-
- I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless
- bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy
- evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I
- receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won
- the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a
- traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat .400. My deft
- floral arrangements have earned me fame in international circles.
- Children trust me.
-
- I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly
- accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David
- Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire
- dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every
- food item in the supermarket. I have performed covert operations
- for the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a
- chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated
- with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The
- laws of physics do not apply to me.
-
- I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all
- paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact
- origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to
- write it down. I have made extraordinary four-course meals using
- only a Mouli and a toaster oven. I breed prize-winning clams. I
- have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri
- Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I
- have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.
-
- Sorry to use so much bandwidth... I hope some of you enjoy this...
-
- Fortune smile on you all...
-
- phantasm
-