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Monthly Archives: February 2010

Welcome to the Neighborhood

Put the key in the lock and turn, that’s how you get in – but time might slow down the closer you get to opening the lock. If you manage to open the lock, you can borrow my lawnmower. Welcome to the neighborhood.

The Goat Joke

A truck is driving through a rural area. A film reel falls from the back of the truck. Later, two goats find the film reel and start nibbling it. The one goat turns to the other and asks ‘How are you liking it?’ The other goat replies ‘It’s okay, but I liked the book better.
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Eraser’s Lament

Oh! What unfairness of the universe has compelled the craftsman to put
me into the miserable arrangement of an eraser? I could have been a
pen – how I wish to be a pen! – which gives man the power of history.
Maybe I would have been a candle, providing a feeble, steady light to
the writer. I would [...]