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STORY For THE DAY :-)
The Adventures
of
Purrfull Pordge
And his brother
George
by
UNKNOWN
“Quoth the Raven “Never more”
but how wrong could he be?
For dying light from every sigh
Will travel through Eternity
As the light from every star
That passes from these shores
Is recorded there for all to see
In Crystal halls
Of
Evermore
Author unknown
From, The book of Known Truths and Hidden Lies
The Adventures of Purrfull Pordge and his brother George
Chapter 1
Evermore
Imagine a place that is the farthest place from anywhere and anything in any world or galaxy or universe. A place that exists in everytime. The last place where every spent particle of light from everywhere ends its journey and becomes the recorded history of truth for all time, then you'll have imagined the realm of Evermore.
Heavily populated by the released energies of the spent creatures from everywhere, Evermore is an extremely busy place, and the onslaught of constant data arriving keeps everyone quite occupied in organizing and storing it all. But all is not work in evermore, for every citizen of evermore has all the time from everywhen to do pretty much whatever he, she or they want to do. And that is where our story begins, in the Capital City, of the realm of Evermore.
Thomas, a bright, diligent, conscientious soul has spotted an error in the records, that seems to have created a fuzzy edge. A fuzzy edge is a fray in the fabric of time and space much like a fray on a wool sweater, that if left unattended to can be the beginning of a bad unraveling.
Thomas could not allow that to happen on his watch, period. It had to be attended to. Although Thomas was a qualified runner, his talents at record corrections, preceded his sudden urge to go into the field himself and get into a hands on operation. He knows that he has to delegate the wet work to a current runner, to expedite the resolution of the fuzzy edge. So with a sigh of resignation he pulls up the duty roster of the runners that are waiting assignment and activates the summons page to have the next available runner meet him at the observation platform as soon as possible. In a burst of excitement Thomas jumped from his seat and hurried off to the observation platform to get a birdseye view of this fuzzy edge, close up.
Bounding down the hallway he nearly collides with several of his co workers who were barely able to avoid his dash to
the nearest lift.
As the recorded message of the transport lift warns...”wait for the green light before exiting the transport” ..... Thomas was nervously fingering the open button on the lift console as the cycle neared the completion sequence. He hadn't felt this giddy in eons. As the doors opened Thomas was as awestruck as ever at the sight before him. On the observation platform the view was always astounding. Above the platform the sky was aglow with all the universes of creation. Below the platform, stretching as far as the eye could see was the intricate, spiraling lace patterns of Evermore laid out like crisp frost on a mirrored surface of eternity.
Looking around, Thomas noticed that the view deck was alive with activity, there were many Evermorians using the viewports. They were either actively involved with work or casually cruising through forever, visiting places and when’s, that they had never seen before. Spying a vacant viewport, Thomas quickly took a seat at the controls and zeroed in on the particular universe in which this fuzzy edge was occurring. All his attention absorbed in the viewscope adjustment.
lets take a peek at whats got Thomas so excited ;-)
YouTube - Peter Andre and Katie Price Jordan - A Whole New World VIDEO
...to be continued
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....i"m Gonna Jump Ahead In The Story :-i
Chapter 4
THE TWINS
As the full moon rose above the tree tops to its highest point in the night time sky, it shown so brilliantly that it appeared to be surrounded by a rainbow halo. Although it was relatively windless at ground level., high above, whisper thin clouds like storm caught bed sheets, raced swiftly but soundlessly to some far unknown destination. The transparent shadows, making the ground below appear as a turbulent rushing river of light and lending a surreal atmosphere to mom’s meadow and the surrounding forests.
Purrfull Pordge sat stoically perched on the log of a fallen tree overlooking the meadow as his brother George was crouching and slinking, tail straight back and twitching, then pouncing at every subtle rustle in the cool meadow grass. Come help me, there are meadow mice everywhere and I can’t seem to catch any, George pleaded to his brother. But Purrfull Pordge’s attention seemed to be somewhere else, as though he were wrestling with disturbing thoughts that scurried across the surface of Pordge’s mind, the way the clouds were dashing before the face of the halo ringed moon, the way that George had been wrestling with meadow grasses.
“I want to go home”, Mr. George complained to his brother Pordge. “I can’t catch any of these silly mice, and the thought of eating them is absurd. I’m starving, and I haven’t been snuggled or had a good purrfull sleep in a nice warm house in a nice warm bed in almost two whole days.” Snuggling purrfully, was what George and Pordge both excelled at. “And besides it’s not raining and I’m tired of hiding in that damp old hole,” George exclaimed. “We can’t” declared Pordge. “We Promised Momma Kitty that we would stay here until she returned and we double promised that no matter how hungry or cold and wet that it got that we would stay hidden until then. We’re not even supposed to be out here in the meadow, and the only reason we are is because you were driving us both nuts with your whining. And besides you’re right, it has stopped raining and we aren’t wet are we.” Purrfull Pordge thought back to earlier in the evening, just after nightfall, when Nohj had been pleadingly calling into the rainy night for them. “Poooordgeeeeee,,,,,Geoooooorgeeeeeeee,,,,kittykit tykittykiittykittykittieeees. Come home”…… Even Pordge had been overcome with a longing to go home.“Besides” said Pordge , “the Neirbos have long since gone to bed . We couldn’t get in until morning anyway.” “Well lets just sneak up to house now” George replied, “I’m sure that there’s food in Momma Kitty’s dishes, and I’m still starving. Then we could sneak into the basement and at least be warm for the rest of the night.”
“We just can’t” said Pordge to George, “remember the mirrors and reflective flat surfaces in the basement. You remember what Mamma Kitty told us. We can’t be the cause of something bad happening to Nohj and Laresh, after all that they have done for us.” “Oh pish posh and harrumph” said George...”Mirror people,,, puddle people,,, what’s next? If you ask me, sometimes, I think that Mamma Kitty has gone completely over to the other side of sanity.” George didn’t know how close to the truth that actually was.“Well, even if she does get a bit batty sometimes, She has always done what she thinks is best for us said Pordge. And I happen to know that Momma Kitty is a lot smarter than she lets on. Besides, I know where we can scare up a bite to eat and have a little bit of fun in the process. Lets go over to the neighbor’s house and get Butch the bulldog to choke himself on his own chain. That should wake up Clareise and you know she always has a nibble or two hidden away just in case you happen to show your pretty face. You know, she’s sweet on you Georgie old boy. Hmmm thought George, Hang Butch, Nibble some kibble while feasting on the vision of Clareise…. “Why Pordgie, sometimes you surprise me” said George. “That sounds like the kind of mischievous idea that I would come with.” “And besides” said Pordge, “we’ve got to eat, and sometimes Momma Kitty can disappear for weeks, and I’m pretty sure there aren’t any puddles between here and there.”
"HEY WE CAN ALWAYS PLAY POSSUM ON THE WAY OVER" says George :-)
"PRECISELY" says Purrfull Pordge ;-)
SWEET says George :-)
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WOW.......TPA Gave me my own Thread :-)
 .......Lesbians are ok.......
anyway.........eheheheheheheheheheh.....before I get banned from hippymom again.......lets get what I've already written ;-)
^I^
..RISKING BRAIN DAMAGE....we JUMP even Further ahead in the story but seem to only catsup
PURRFULL PORDGE SECTION 2
Chapter 11
Strange goings on
Purrfull Pordge and his brother George were doing a stealth reconnaissance on Butch the bulldog's house, before deciding on a plan of attack. Pordge had climbed a large tree to get a birds-eye view of the target, while on the ground George circled the perimeter checking the wind. They had done this hundreds of times and Butch was constantly changing his own tactics, which always made it more fun. But poor Butch could never seem to get the advantage because he didn’t have the same ability that George and Pordge had inherited from their mother. They could read each others minds, even from a very long distance. Better than walkie-talkies, more like cell phones they would constantly carry on conversations with each other no matter where they were. And they could also read Butches’ mind.
“I can’t see him yet, but I can sure smell him” George thought to Pordge.
"OH GEORGIE.........LOOK, ON BUTCHES HOUSE....IT'S THE POOKA.......THIS IS A GOOD SIGN :-)
The Pooka, an old freind of Momma kitty, was a very large invisable white rabbit that occasionally came to watch Goerge and Pordge play.....they always had more fun if the Pooka was around
"OH GOODY" George thinks, WHERE's BUTCHY BOY ???
“BUTCH is hunkered down in the shallow depression just this side of the large Madrona tree, between his dog-house and the front porch” Pordge responded.
Butch was crouched and lying flatter than a snake in his shallow foxhole. He had heard the soft rustling in bushes and earlier he’d heard the sound of claws on a tree. He was on full alert. It was either those pesky cats or those thieving raccoons Butch thought to himself. He slunk even deeper, if that was possible, while chuckling to his self, because Butch had a new weapon in his own arsenal. Butches’ owners had tired of having to un-hang Butch from his dog-house and had purchased him a longer chain. Before, they had Butch on a fifteen-foot chain staked to the center of the yard. That gave Butch a thirty-foot circle and access to his dog-house leaving just enough space for people to get around him and into the house. It also gave him just enough room to get on top of his dog-house but was too short to allow him to get off on the far side. Butches’ owners were beginning to think that since the first time butch had hung himself he must have suffered brain damage from lack of blood-flow to his brain, because they couldn’t understand why he kept doing it.
Now his owners had put Butch on a twenty-foot chain and had moved the location of the center spike to leave the same amount of access to the house and to also give Butch enough room to get up on his dog-house and down the other side without hanging himself. “ This time “ Butch cackled maniacally, to himself.
“Did you catch that” George 'thought' to Pordge? Hmm, Thought Pordge, this was going to take some calculated trigonometry to figure out which trees they were going to have to get butch wrapped around and still hang him from his house. He studied the problem for several long seconds before thinking “Got it” to George. Pordge didn’t make a quite decent from the tree. He did quite the opposite actually, and scraped his claws as loudly as he could as he made his way to the ground. This was a way to 'PSYC' Butch out, sort of like running finger nails down a blackboard to annoy and announcing a beginning to the nights events at the same time. Butch would be vibrating with anticipation when the attack finally came.
(-: :-)
Pordge met up with George at a small patch of moonlit forest floor and began digging and scraping leaves and just making all kinds of rustling racket as he cleared a space to lay out his plan in the dirt. George watched on as Pordge, rather artfully drew a representation of the layout of Butches’ new perimeter “The way I see it, we’ve got two ways we can get the desired results” Pordge said to George. The quickest way may be the most dangerous and the second way will take a little maneuvering but should be more of a sure thing. “This is where Butch is laying now and this is how his chain is lying on the ground. George studied the drawing raptly as Pordge laid out the plans, and they decided to go with the riskier first plan figuring that it would give them plenty of time to get to Kitty Clarieces’ pet door and get into the house and thus the kibble.
Butches’ eyes scanned back and forth across yard, looking , waiting, ready to spring into action like a spring steel trap set with a hair trigger he thought to himself, as he was crawling with anticipation under his still fur. Whats that, his eyes locked onto the top of his dog house where moments before there had been nothing, was now occupied by Mr. Pordge who was calmly washing himself, pretending to be obliviously unconcerned with Butches’ whereabouts.
Butch wriggled his but and scrunched even flatter in preperation. I knew it, those pesky cats again. “Wait, wait”, he told himself. He knew he would never get to his house in time to catch that cat from the direction he was facing. Should he try to move to get a better angle? No, wait he told himself.
George nonchalantly dropped to the ground and took a few steps towards where Butch was laying, then sat and began licking his paws, teasing.
Butch was now literally vibrating inside his skin thinking yes, yes this time I’m going to get you, you pesky cat.
Butch was laying perpendicular to where George was standing and would have to lunge abruptly to his right as he came out of his hole. Pordge had calculated exactly where He would have to stand to get Butch to lunge so that his chain would ride up under a tree root that was growing up out of the ground at the edge of the hole where Butch was lying. This should shorten the chain just enough to again hang butch off the backside of his dog-house. But the root may not be strong enough to hold Butches weight for long or maybe not at all.
“It may only snag him for a second if that Pordge had said to George, so timing will be critical. You’ll have to pounce just as I’m stepping on his trigger point, he told George.
George was up the tree without a sound, directly above butch as soon as Pordge had caught butches’ attention, and was in a pounce stance, much the way butch was, himself. Watching both his brother, and the tell-tail twitch in Butches tail as Pordge again stepped closer to where the dog lay in wait.
The plan was that Pordge would turn and run for Butches house as soon as Butch began his spring. George was to pounce and land directly on Butches lower back, spoiling his lunge, then they would both head for and over the dog-house, hoping the tree root would hold just long enough to avoid the clamping chomp of Butches’ powerful jaws. If they could successfully hang Butch he would be stifled and unable to raise a ruckus by barking and they could leisurely waltz into the house as calmly as you please. If the root didn’t hold they could still get in by staying clear of butch on the people path, but the ensuing rampage of barking that would erupt, would surely awaken Butches owners. And Kitty Clariece would not be impressed by the ensuing pandemonium. Quiet was always better.
(This section was too long) 
Crap I'll have to be nice to the witches for a while :-O
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THERES NO TEARS IN HEAVEN
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11-20-2007, 10:48 PM
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Uht Oh.......:-i
Quote:
Originally Posted by ONEWHITEDUCK
:.......Lesbians are ok.......
anyway.........eheheheheheheheheheh.....before I get banned from hippymom again.......lets get what I've already written ;-)
^I^
..RISKING BRAIN DAMAGE....we JUMP even Further ahead in the story but seem to only catsup
PURRFULL PORDGE SECTION 2
Chapter 11
Strange goings on
Purrfull Pordge and his brother George were doing a stealth reconnaissance on Butch the bulldog's house, before deciding on a plan of attack. Pordge had climbed a large tree to get a birds-eye view of the target, while on the ground George circled the perimeter checking the wind. They had done this hundreds of times and Butch was constantly changing his own tactics, which always made it more fun. But poor Butch could never seem to get the advantage because he didn’t have the same ability that George and Pordge had inherited from their mother. They could read each others minds, even from a very long distance. Better than walkie-talkies, more like cell phones they would constantly carry on conversations with each other no matter where they were. And they could also read Butches’ mind.
“I can’t see him yet, but I can sure smell him” George thought to Pordge.
"OH GEORGIE.........LOOK, ON BUTCHES HOUSE....IT'S THE POOKA.......THIS IS A GOOD SIGN :-)
The Pooka, an old freind of Momma kitty, was a very large invisable white rabbit that occasionally came to watch Goerge and Pordge play.....they always had more fun if the Pooka was around
"OH GOODY" George thinks, WHERE's BUTCHY BOY ???
“BUTCH is hunkered down in the shallow depression just this side of the large Madrona tree, between his dog-house and the front porch” Pordge responded.
Butch was crouched and lying flatter than a snake in his shallow foxhole. He had heard the soft rustling in bushes and earlier he’d heard the sound of claws on a tree. He was on full alert. It was either those pesky cats or those thieving raccoons Butch thought to himself. He slunk even deeper, if that was possible, while chuckling to his self, because Butch had a new weapon in his own arsenal. Butches’ owners had tired of having to un-hang Butch from his dog-house and had purchased him a longer chain. Before, they had Butch on a fifteen-foot chain staked to the center of the yard. That gave Butch a thirty-foot circle and access to his dog-house leaving just enough space for people to get around him and into the house. It also gave him just enough room to get on top of his dog-house but was too short to allow him to get off on the far side. Butches’ owners were beginning to think that since the first time butch had hung himself he must have suffered brain damage from lack of blood-flow to his brain, because they couldn’t understand why he kept doing it.
Now his owners had put Butch on a twenty-foot chain and had moved the location of the center spike to leave the same amount of access to the house and to also give Butch enough room to get up on his dog-house and down the other side without hanging himself. “ This time “ Butch cackled maniacally, to himself.
“Did you catch that” George 'thought' to Pordge? Hmm, Thought Pordge, this was going to take some calculated trigonometry to figure out which trees they were going to have to get butch wrapped around and still hang him from his house. He studied the problem for several long seconds before thinking “Got it” to George. Pordge didn’t make a quite decent from the tree. He did quite the opposite actually, and scraped his claws as loudly as he could as he made his way to the ground. This was a way to 'PSYC' Butch out, sort of like running finger nails down a blackboard to annoy and announcing a beginning to the nights events at the same time. Butch would be vibrating with anticipation when the attack finally came.
(-: :-)
Pordge met up with George at a small patch of moonlit forest floor and began digging and scraping leaves and just making all kinds of rustling racket as he cleared a space to lay out his plan in the dirt. George watched on as Pordge, rather artfully drew a representation of the layout of Butches’ new perimeter “The way I see it, we’ve got two ways we can get the desired results” Pordge said to George. The quickest way may be the most dangerous and the second way will take a little maneuvering but should be more of a sure thing. “This is where Butch is laying now and this is how his chain is lying on the ground. George studied the drawing raptly as Pordge laid out the plans, and they decided to go with the riskier first plan figuring that it would give them plenty of time to get to Kitty Clarieces’ pet door and get into the house and thus the kibble.
Butches’ eyes scanned back and forth across yard, looking , waiting, ready to spring into action like a spring steel trap set with a hair trigger he thought to himself, as he was crawling with anticipation under his still fur. Whats that, his eyes locked onto the top of his dog house where moments before there had been nothing, was now occupied by Mr. Pordge who was calmly washing himself, pretending to be obliviously unconcerned with Butches’ whereabouts.
Butch wriggled his but and scrunched even flatter in preperation. I knew it, those pesky cats again. “Wait, wait”, he told himself. He knew he would never get to his house in time to catch that cat from the direction he was facing. Should he try to move to get a better angle? No, wait he told himself.
George nonchalantly dropped to the ground and took a few steps towards where Butch was laying, then sat and began licking his paws, teasing.
Butch was now literally vibrating inside his skin thinking yes, yes this time I’m going to get you, you pesky cat.
Butch was laying perpendicular to where George was standing and would have to lunge abruptly to his right as he came out of his hole. Pordge had calculated exactly where He would have to stand to get Butch to lunge so that his chain would ride up under a tree root that was growing up out of the ground at the edge of the hole where Butch was lying. This should shorten the chain just enough to again hang butch off the backside of his dog-house. But the root may not be strong enough to hold Butches weight for long or maybe not at all.
“It may only snag him for a second if that Pordge had said to George, so timing will be critical. You’ll have to pounce just as I’m stepping on his trigger point, he told George.
George was up the tree without a sound, directly above butch as soon as Pordge had caught butches’ attention, and was in a pounce stance, much the way butch was, himself. Watching both his brother, and the tell-tail twitch in Butches tail as Pordge again stepped closer to where the dog lay in wait.
The plan was that Pordge would turn and run for Butches house as soon as Butch began his spring. George was to pounce and land directly on Butches lower back, spoiling his lunge, then they would both head for and over the dog-house, hoping the tree root would hold just long enough to avoid the clamping chomp of Butches’ powerful jaws. If they could successfully hang Butch he would be stifled and unable to raise a ruckus by barking and they could leisurely waltz into the house as calmly as you please. If the root didn’t hold they could still get in by staying clear of butch on the people path, but the ensuing rampage of barking that would erupt, would surely awaken Butches owners. And Kitty Clariece would not be impressed by the ensuing pandemonium. Quiet was always better.
(This section was too long) 
Crap I'll have to be nice to the witches for a while :-O
YouTube - Laughing Yoga
YouTube - laughing yoga
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THERES NO TEARS IN HEAVEN
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OOOPS :-O
I never caught this up to TPA or HIPPYMOM or TN TALK
OH WELL.......YOU PEOPLE HAVEN'T BEEN GOOD ENOUGH FOR A STORY
YOU GO TO BED WITHOUT A STORY :-(
well.......maybe a short song
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11-27-2007, 06:36 PM
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[quote=ONEWHITEDUCK;223288]The Adventures
of
Purrfull Pordge
And his brother
George
by
UNKNOWN
“Quoth the Raven “Never more”
but how wrong could he be?
For dying light from every sigh
Will travel through Eternity
As the light from every star
That passes from these shores
Is recorded there for all to see
In Crystal halls
Of
Evermore
Author unknown
From, The book of Known Truths and Hidden Lies
Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument
About it and about : but evermore
Came out by the same Door as in I went.
With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with my own hand labour'd it to grow:
And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd-
I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
The Annotated "Uncle John's Band"
http://www3.telus.net/theguardians/rainbow06.jpg
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RIPPLE........NIPPLE........
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GEE.....now where did I put that story for the day.......:-I
OH SHIT...thats right......I didn't get it all over here before I got banned from hippymom TN TALK and TPA.......oh well.......I got forever to get it back.....WHO KNOWS....there is only a post or two missing........maybe some kind souldwill copy paste them in here like a TOOTH FAIRY or somethin............THEN THE STORY COULD REALLY TAKE WING ;-)
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A DIFFERENT STORY
once upon a time there was a youg boy who was having trouble in school, was not considered a good student by his teachers :-O
His Teachers said he was a disturbing influence on the other children and suggested psychiatric evaluations :-(
BUT his loving Mother....Understanding the true creative genius and her sons unquenchable thirst for questioning WHY .....WITHDREW HIM FROM PUBLIC EDUCATION and Found the means to Privateley educate her child HER OWN DAMNED WAY :-)
MUCH TO THE WEALTH OF US ALL, that this brave woman stood up to the authorities of her time and chose her sons creative spirit, over the COLONY MINDED GET ALONG PSYCHIATRIC PISSIFICATION MIND FUCK FOR NORMALITY METHODS..........HER SON WENT ON TO INVENT THE ELECTRIC LIGHTBULB
eheheheheheheh.........I BET AT THE START YOU THOUGHT I WAS TALKIN ABOUT ME :-)
Thomas Alva Edison was born February 11, 1847, in Milan, Ohio. He grew up there and in Port Huron, Michigan. As a child, he set up a chemistry lab in the basement, but was not considered a good student by teachers so he relied on his mother and himself for education. Edison also lost much of his hearing in youth but did not consider this a "handicap" and said that it was rather an advantage as it gave him more time to think because he did not have to listen to foolish "small talk."
Edison learned how to use a telegraph while working with a stationmaster and this knowledge allowed Edison to work around the country as an operator. His first patent was for the electric vote recorder but no one was interested in buying it so his focus became commercially viable inventions. His first commercial invention was an improvement of the stock ticker. In 1877 he invented the phonograph and in 1878, the electric light. He earned patents for the carbon telephone transmitter and the motion-picture projector.
Thomas Edison also had a hand in starting the "movies." His ideas, combined with George Eastman's development of photographic film, eventually evolved into the multi-billion dollar motion picture industry of today. At first, however, the movies were crude, silent and only about 40 to 80 seconds long. As the sun was the primary source of lighting at that time, Edison constructed the Black Maria, a mobile motion picture studio built on a circular track so that it could easily be turned to face the sun.
Profits from motion pictures and the phonograph kept him in business during the 1890's when he lost millions on an iron ore mine in New Jersey, which used machines to crush boulders and magnets to draw out the ore. The invention worked but was not commercially viable due to its cost.
In December 1914, fire swept through most of the West Orange factories but they were rehabilitated and work continued. By 1925, half of the people living in cities were using electric power in their homes. In 1928, Congress awarded Edison a special honorary medal. Thomas Edison died October 18, 1931. Edison’s most famous quote is "Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."
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eheheheheheheh
YA KNOW.....EVEN ALBERT EINSTIENS TEACHERS THOUGHT HE WAS A LOUSY STUDENT :-O
ehehehehehehehe.......I GUESS SOMETIMES EVEN TEACHERS AREN'T SO FUCKIN SMART ARE THEY ;-)
in that light..........maybe it's not too far a stretch to believe both DOM1 and CATSHIT really are teachers :-(
NOW THAT'S A SCARY FUCKIN THOUGHT :-I
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