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He walked over with a pint and a pernod &

  • He walked over with a pint and a pernod & ice and sat down opposite. He'd already put some water in the pernod. She was surprised to see that he was sober.

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  • He chugged the pint and the pernod, went back and returned with another pint and a pernod and sat down. Her surprise that he was sober vanished. He downed those and went for more.

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  • Now she knew why Captain Ahab had lost his leg.

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  • He was still rather attractive, however, in a brooding, moody sort of way. She needed him to need her & that's why she stayed to make him some soup. Grateful, Capt. Ahab cheered up

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  • The waiter who had just been delivered to the sticks time and time again.

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  • It was hard to not play with tindersticks without starting a fire. In this case, the waiter was terminated for playing with fire. it is better to fold stories and stay out of jail.

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  • But if you find yourself folding stories in jail, that doesn't negate that truism. Almost anything would much better be done from outside of jail. There was a fellow you might have

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  • Broken bread with instead of being beaten bloody with one. You can not only fold a story, but fold yourself out of any predicament too. This was Houdinis finest secret.

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  • Because Houdini had learned how to fold time from a beard of bees that he had met when he had slipped off into space by accident. "God taught me this trick," said the beard of bees

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  • buzzily. "Yes, I did," said God, who had been there the whole time, "and I have one more trick to teach you." It turned out to be a lame card trick; Houdini was super disappointed.

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