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Herbert was relaxing on the patio on a warm

  • Herbert was relaxing on the patio on a warm July evening, enjoying his gin & tonic, when suddenly the stones beneath him gave way and he found himself plunging, still in his chair
  • yoga "downward good dog" pose that he'd learned from a Barnes and Noble gift book, he was so relaxed that when he finally crashed at the bottom he survived, but where in the
  • hell did he mean to go in the first place? Too bad all the bookstores are gone now. Can't find a book in any of the malls. Didn't expect that change so soon. Not in 2011 at least.
  • I tried to explain to the denizens at the food court what a 'book' was. "It's like a blog except it is on pieces of pulped wood." They stared blankly. "Where's the scroll bar?"
  • "What if it freezes up? How do you charge it?" And on and on and on. I said "Look you knuckleheaded dimwits, it's a book. You open it up and read the words on the pages."
  • I demonstrated,letting the censored book open to my favorite passage, the yellowed, dog-eared page caught their curiosity. "Dude, we'll get caught! This is prereader technology! "
  • "Excuuuuuuse me, princess! I know what the hell I'm doing!" Darwin shut his mouth as I scanned the page I had opened the book up to. It described in detail the process of
  • gaining the ability to talk to animals, it was really cool, but totally secret. Debbie laughed at the specificity of that passage before shutting the book and dragging Darwin outsi
  • de of his cell to readjust his straight jacket. He kept on explaining how someday humans would evolve into talking animals themselves. Then he began drooling. Nurse Debbie rolle
  • claimed she wasn't related to the New Yor Giants' Antrel Rolle, but the man in the straight jacket knew better.

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