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- From: adw3345@ultb.isc.rit.edu (A.D. Williams)
- Subject: Re: three weeks to Valentine's Day
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.164507.1656@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:45:07 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.213236.13645@netcom.com> gooley@netcom.com (Mark. Gooley) writes:
- >I can't give thorns without roses any more because people will think that
- >I'm copying Morticia Addams.
- >
- >I can still give used chocolates (box of chocolates, each slightly
- >pre-masticated).
- >
- >I can still send rude and insulting valentines.
- >
- >I don't think that I'll try anything involving firearms and high towers.
- >
- >Mark., three weeks to brood
-
-
- Well, I'm taking a different tack. I'm too young to be cynical and
- bitter about love like Mark. is, although I should think that if my
- (nonexistent) love life continues the way it does now, I would become
- just like him in say, 8 years from now.
-
- In my confused and innocent state, I am trying to get the attentions
- and affections of a 30 year old woman (I'm 22), who for all the world
- looks 20. I was smitten before I found out her age, but somehow this
- doesn't seem to matter to me a bit.
-
- Valentine's day is approaching, and I'd like to make some progress to
- a more intimite state. I could send her flowers, but I already did that
- for Christmas. Fine wine? I wouldn't know a good wine from my week old
- rancid piss. Chocolates? She and I work out 5 days a week. No
- chocolates. Satin lingere? Whoa, that's pushing it.
-
- So in my extensive library in my bathroom (mostly Scientific Americans,
- "The Devouring Fungus", "The Microverse", "Doon", and assorted
- catalogs), I rediscovered the ARCHIE McPHEE catalog. I love you, Archie.
- You're beautiful. Don't ever change.
-
- So without getting up from the can, I filled out an order (so I keep
- pens and a paper pad in my bookshelf in the bathroom, ok?) for the
- following:
-
-
- 1 pair Deely bobbers
- 1 toad mask
- 1 pair 50's sunglasses
- 1 Blowfish pocket protector
- 1 rubber heart
- 4 suction lizards
- 1 packet rubber slugs
- 1 big squeek frog
- 1 treasure box (full of stuff you get from gum/prize machines)
- 1 backbone keyring
-
- and some other stuff. The total was about $50, including shipping.
-
- After finishing my business in the can (wiping sitting down), I got
- out my checkbook, wrote the check, and mailed the thing immediately
- after. When I let go of the mailbox door, I got this odd feeling
- like I've just launched a shoulder mounted SAM and that I was committed
- and that there was no turning back. Yes, I shot off the Archie McPhee
- missle of love.
-
- I think my targeted valentine will like this stuff. I sincerely hope
- so, because I can't really comprehend what women see in ordinary
- stuff like balloons and diamond rings. All in all, I know that even
- if she comes in the weight room, slaps me hard across the face, knees
- me in the groin and kicks me in the ribs when I'm writhing on the floor
- and announces to all that I'm nothing but worthless dog spittle and if I
- don't leave her alone, she'll call the local Brownie Troop to really
- beat me up, I know that when she sees a a plastic nun or a fish squirt
- toy, somewhere in her precious heart a faint stirring will evoke a faded
- memory of me.
-
- So gentle t.b readers, for that special someone with bizarre or no
- taste, you can send a Valentine's day gift from:
-
-
- Archie McPhee
- P.O. Box 30852
- Seattle, WA 98103
- United States of America (for those in 3rd world countries)
-
- Phone: (206) 782 - 2344
-
-
- It's really too late to get a catalog and order in time for Valentine's
- day (although you should get a catalog anyway). Just ask for merchandise
- in general terms. They have rubber chickens, insects, goofy glasses,
- etc, and they take credit cards.
-
-
- Of course, I don't have any connection with Archie McPhee. I'm just
- insecure enough to think that if no one else sends their valentine something
- weird, I will be an outcast and be forced to live in dumpsters.
-
-
- Derrick
-
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