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Reply 7900

Robob

wanderer

I haven't actually looked, I'll go check for you. :wink:

Bastard!

Reply 7901

wanderer

Robob

Bastard!

Ha, it appears to be dead anyway. It usually is.

Reply 7902

Robob

wanderer

Ha, it appears to be dead anyway. It usually is when Rob isn't there

I agree

Reply 7903

wanderer

*Blinks slowly*

I knew it. I'm actually going mad.

Reply 7904

Robob

wanderer

*Blinks slowly*

I knew it. I'm actually going mad.

Going mad?

I thought you were a mathmo, ooops :redface:

Reply 7905

Camford

wanderer

I've done less than half of my maths workbook. I'll do a bit more, but it's just so dull ...

I didn't do any of mine before I started. You'll do just fine :smile:

Reply 7906

sassygirl

I read a really funny (but very warped) 'childrens' bedtime? story by one of my favourite writers, Jennifer Crusie. Apparently she tried children's books before seguing off into contemporary romance. Her attempt 'Helen: A Story of Passion' is seriously not for the fainthearted!

http://jennycrusie.blogspot.com/2006/05/first-crusie.html

Here it is: (it has illustrations but I can't copy and paste them)

Helen was the coolest little rabbit in the forest. She had big velvety eyes and a cute little moist pink nose, but so did all the other little rabbits. What set Helen apart from the crowd was her insatiable lust for ice cream.

Helen's mother warned her. "You're going to get fat, Helen," she said. "And sick. And your fur will break out. Nobody will want to go out with you. Eat some greens, Helen."

"Pistachio or lime sherbet?" Helen asked.

Helen's father warned her. "You're going to hell in a sugar cone, Helen," he said. "You keep hanging around all those seedy ice cream parlors, you're going to take up with a bad class of rabbit. Eat some fruit, Helen."

"Raspberry ripple or mocha orange swirl?" Helen asked.

Helen took to hanging out around a particularly good trash basket outside Mother McClean's House of Calories. On a good day, she could salvage two sundaes, a malt, and half a dozen cones before the melt got too bad. Every day was Sundae for Helen until the day she met Firebolt.

Helen first noticed Firebolt when he began hanging around her trashbasket one day. It was hard not to notice Firebolt. He was a foot taller than all the other rabbits and he wore a black leather jacket and swung a bicycle chain.

"Hi, honey," he said to Helen.

"This is my basket, hyperthyroid," Helen said. "Poach on my trash and I'll rip your nose off."

"Obviously, you are unaware of my identity, kiddo," he said suavely. "I am Firebolt the Thunderbunny, and this is my slave, Zumpf."

Behind him, a small brown rabbit waved at her nervously and nibbled his lip.

"I don't care if you're the heir to Baskins Robbins," Helen retorted. "Touch my basket and your face will be shorter by a nose."

"Here." Firebolt handed Zumpf his bicycle chain and Zumpf began to swing it for him. He put his paw around Helen's shoulders. "You still do not understand, my sweet," he said. "Let me take you away from all this. Return with me to my pad in the storeroom of Mother McClean's and I will feed you ice cream that will blow your argyles off. Have you ever," he whispered in her ear as he stroked her soft furry shoulder, "tried rum raisin?"

"Rum raisin?" Helen weakened and was lost.

Firebolt took her back to his place and plied her with rum raisin and Harvey Wallbanger sherbet. From there it was just a short step to egg creams and ruin.

Helen's argyles ravelled and she got fat. Firebolt dropped her in favor of a little black spotted job he'd found arguing with Zumpf over a discarded raspberry ripple. Now she plays cribbage there with Zumpf and waits with a hopeless passion for someone to pitch an egg cream at her.

It never happens.

Moral: If someone offers you an egg cream, rip his nose off.

Reply 7907

-x- Lici -x-

sassygirl

Helen's father warned her. "You're going to hell in a sugar cone, Helen," he said.

"This is my basket, hyperthyroid," Helen said. "Poach on my trash and I'll rip your nose off."

Firebolt took her back to his place and plied her with rum raisin and Harvey Wallbanger sherbet. From there it was just a short step to egg creams and ruin.