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"This old man. He played one. He played Nick

  • "This old man. He played one. He played Nick Nack on my thumb. With a Nick Nack paddy whack. Give the dog a bone. This old man came rolling home." Nick Nack was not amused.
  • Paddy Whack was a loan officer at Nick Nack's bank who had denied him a loan for his home renovations. Nick did not need to be reminded of the experience. It was last November when
  • his old man came rolling home. Literally. His old man's legs were blown off during the Tet Offensive of '68 and Nick Nack needed the loan to remodel the trailer so Dad could maneuv
  • -er the big screen tv into the bathroom. Legless Nack was his old man's name. Nick called him "The Waister." Legless Nack was known sit on the can for so long that huge amounts
  • of grey fuzzy white noise would shoot out from all orifices at once. So Nick and Nack began to watch the news in the bathroom, on that big screen. Nick had a heart for the legless
  • monk that sold all his possessions to help the orphans working at the cookie farm. He now rolled around on his cart trying as he could to steal to the rich and give to the poor.
  • Fortunately, when the orphan's under the Monk's care caught wind of his thievery, they soon joined him. Rich men were suddenly afraid to wander the cookie farm, lest they be accost
  • Ed by begging Monks. There was a major food shortage locally, so it was every man for himself. This was what the astromeotorologists had predicted years ago. The Monks fed cookies
  • to flowers, or at least they tried.Insane from hunger and frustrated by the flowers' stubbornness, the monks threw their cookies at them.The flowers remained calm,no need to fight.
  • The monks, sensing the uselessness of their plight, went back to their monastery, leaving the flowers safe, at least until winter came.

4 Comments

  1. DanielQuinn May 12 2016 @ 14:37

    I feel that there has been a lot about monks around here lately. But I'm pretty new, maybe monks have always been an important topic?

  2. Dhanithecat May 12 2016 @ 15:04

    That makes sense. Monks do folding stories too.

  3. SlimWhitman May 12 2016 @ 15:05

    monks are encountered in folds usually. usually monks clothes are worn in folds. folds of monks are marrauding our folds. thelonius monk fled the folds for safer digs. I think I''ll make me a monkfish folded in a pita sammich...

  4. Dhanithecat May 12 2016 @ 15:07

    Way to go!

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