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Old 11-29-2012, 04:31 PM
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went to KathieL's instead, but she is never home, so Rubicon ended up at TooJay's, where he met. . .
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sit down and picked three popcorn hulls out of his teeth which made Rubicon frown and say.......................
"I'd better make a dental appointment for a teeth cleaning before Bill gets down."
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Bill, this popcorn is terrible. He then left in a huff and decided to go to Gracies as she always has coffee and cake and he was hungry. Gracie was not home so he.........
Went to Seabreeze to swim a few laps. Not long thereafter, Gracie came home and she said to Sweetie that something told her that Rubicon had been there, and they had better check the house to see if everything was still there. After checking the silverware and her massive collection of jewelry, not to mention the coin collection and gold bars, and satisfied that everything was in place she took Helene and went to............
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Hey we now have three different story lines...pick one and stick with it. It's 4:30 in the afternoon and I am not as sharp as I was earlier.
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This story is making me laugh my butt off....even with the deviations here and there......it isn't easy with the Novocain I needed for the emergency dental work.....
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Hey we now have three different story lines...pick one and stick with it. It's 4:30 in the afternoon and I am not as sharp as I was earlier.
So he suggested we go back to the "dark and gloomy afternoon" where a dead body was found in the parking lot of the Rialto Theater.
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It turns out that the dead body was that of the author of the above short story. Someone evidently read it, went crazy, and decided to take revenge.
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Nope. We aren't going back.
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Went to Seabreeze to swim a few laps. Not long thereafter, Gracie came home and she said to Sweetie that something told her that Rubicon had been there, and they had better check the house to see if everything was still there. After checking the silverware and her massive collection of jewelry, not to mention the coin collection and gold bars, and satisfied that everything was in place she took Helene and went to............
see Santa Claus. She climbed onto his lap and he groaned.( Gracie had been hittin' those Twinkies hard lately before they all went away.) Gracie looked into Santa Claus' eyes and said plaintively..................Please Santa. Won't you bring me a big.....
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Nope. We aren't going back.
Right, the man is dead, he can't take back what he wrote, lets move on and....
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see Santa Claus. She climbed onto his lap and he groaned.( Gracie had been hittin' those Twinkies hard lately before they all went away.) Gracie looked into Santa Claus' eyes and said plaintively..................Please Santa. Won't you bring me a big.....
supersized happy wish to give to PL for Christmas. Santa looked seriously into Gracie's eyes and whispered softly into her ear
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see Santa Claus. She climbed onto his lap and he groaned.( Gracie had been hittin' those Twinkies hard lately before they all went away.) Gracie looked into Santa Claus' eyes and said plaintively..................Please Santa. Won't you bring me a big.....
Howdy Doody doll as I didn't get one when I was a child. Santa repied, "have you been a good girl"? Gracie replied, yes Santa. He knew she was......
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see Santa Claus. She climbed onto his lap and he groaned.( Gracie had been hittin' those Twinkies hard lately before they all went away.) Gracie looked into Santa Claus' eyes and said plaintively..................Please Santa. Won't you bring me a big.....
...tractor trailer load of Twinkies, another short story that makes sense, and....
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