He seated the cabbages with respect and served
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He seated the cabbages with respect and served them bowls of buckwheat groats and cups of fine black tea. Most people were inconsiderate savages, but he felt comfortable and hoped
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this small but lovingly prepared meal would sway the cabbages to accept him as one of their own.He understood their gravitas&sought to bring kindness to their miserable cruciferous
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patch of garden. The cabbages had been through many wars against the snails. In the past few seasons cabbages had been devistated by a slug invasion. The garden wars had taken its
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toll in the lives of brave cabbage warriors making the final sacrifice. Widow cabbages and their bereft children prayed for peace, but the slug army would not hear of a treaty.
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"Salt and burn," said a lone voice. Anxious eyes darted back and forth. "Should we?" The pacifist cabbage warriors had staunchly adhered to non-lethal weaponry against the slugs.
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The lone voice belonged to a cabbage patch doll. He wanted to use salt on the slugs. Then a pacificist cabbage warrior said, "It'll do no good. The slugs have kevlar salt vests
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. We should try to negotiate a truce. Slugs love their hatchlings too." But they other cabbage patch kids feared the snails and put a Trojan cabbage in the patch filled with
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elite cabbage patch soldiers. The slugs were suspicious, but when the cabbage patch kids explained that the Trojan cabbage was an offering to My Little Pony, they relented. Foolish
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cabbages. Did they think My Little Pony chose its popularity? All they did was slay Barbie's foundations. But greedy toy companies had the last laugh. Hasbro's shark tank waited
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until the Yellowstone caldera erupted and blocked out the sun to introduce their toddler-sized My Little Generator powered by treadmill, stationary cycle, or hand crank!
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- Started
- 2012-11-26 21:47:34
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- 2013-02-20 13:40:02
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49erFaithful Feb 20 2013 @ 13:41
Forgot to mention that all the fossil fuels were burned up and there was no wind any more either.
Rachel Feb 20 2013 @ 13:58
I like this story.
49erFaithful Feb 20 2013 @ 14:45
Yes, good stuff. Bit of a different direction at the end but nothing wrong with that.
Zetawilk Feb 21 2013 @ 01:06
Sorry, I got caught up in creepy children's toys and the dogma of commercialist marketing. Again.