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He took a tin-opener, cut open the tin and

  • He took a tin-opener, cut open the tin and pushed up the lid - only to be confronted with another tin within. "It's tinned tinned sweetcorn," crowed the shop keeper in triumph, "do
  • ya want to open it to be sure?" I sighed, took the tin, and cut it open. Sure enough, there was yet another can inside labeled 'sweetcorn'. "Aw, shucks, really? I was hoping for so
  • mething else. I opened this can & dug out yet another can. It had 'Fuck All' written on the label. A strange melancholy enveloped my senses as if of hemlock I had drunk and whimsic
  • al pan flute melodies trilled in my noggin' like a lost bird in a huge cave. All this canned "Fuck All" really didn't improve things. I reached for a beer and found only a warm
  • Spot to put my feet. The beer was good. Grocery shopping done, for a while! We had all the basics for a November night. Life was good, if you remembered money wasn't everything.
  • Which I did of course, I thought as I scanned websites for the best deal. A brand new Hi-Def television, a toaster, and a winter coat were within my grasp - I could feel it.
  • Have to find the right mask. What would it be? A handkerchief. No. That's been done to death. Hockey mask? Gory. This isn't a slasher movie. I need money. Wait. Halloween. Hmmm.
  • So I waited until Halloween and then pounced on a little plastic bunny mask that a child had left on the street. It had been run over several times, which I felt only added to its
  • roadkill realism. I took the knee length mangy pink sweater my Aunt Gerty once knit me & duct taped a cheerleader pon-pon on the rear, put it on & headed for the pub for trick-or-
  • treat night. I thought my bunny roadkill outfit would win, but not so. A guy wrapped in a plastic tube with his bald head sticking out won. He said he was a roll-on deodorant.
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2013-07-11 05:20:25
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2018-03-05 09:22:06

1 Comments

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    SlimWhitman Mar 05 2018 @ 14:43

    LOL, I can just imagine it, TarotGuy. Woe is him if a great big gorilla customer feels that he needs freshen up the old sweaty hairy pits!

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