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Posted on 02/27/2007 4:07:28 PM PST by PATRICKHENRY REPUBLIC
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To: Darksheare
Man of a thousand faces. Some are even made into purses for truckdrivers.
2,841
posted on
03/21/2007 3:26:10 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(I can resist anything but temptation.)
To: NicknamedBob; Darksheare
2,842
posted on
03/21/2007 3:26:51 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Misery loves miserable company.......ask any liberal. Hunter in 08!)
To: NicknamedBob; stephenjohnbanker
I'm just a simple tour guide of the lower levels.
..so what if I carry heavy weaponry when down there.
2,843
posted on
03/21/2007 3:27:44 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(She had the face of a trucker. She used it as a purse.)
To: Monkey Face
I swear I don't know where the rest of those faces came from.
2,844
posted on
03/21/2007 3:28:10 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(She had the face of a trucker. She used it as a purse.)
To: Darksheare; Monkey Face; stephenjohnbanker
"I swear I don't know where the rest of those faces came from." Somewhere, there are faceless crowds.
2,845
posted on
03/21/2007 3:32:17 PM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(I know where I have gone wrong, and I can cite it, chapter and verse.)
To: NicknamedBob; Monkey Face; stephenjohnbanker
*quietly and surreptitiously packing*
Sounds creepy.
Are they dangerous?
2,846
posted on
03/21/2007 3:34:15 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(She had the face of a trucker. She used it as a purse.)
To: Darksheare
"Oh.. the chaos field. " I think Spider Robinson had someone like you in mind when he created his character, the "Lucky Duck."
2,847
posted on
03/21/2007 3:35:22 PM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(I know where I have gone wrong, and I can cite it, chapter and verse.)
To: NicknamedBob
2,848
posted on
03/21/2007 3:36:40 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(She had the face of a trucker. She used it as a purse.)
To: Darksheare
"Are they dangerous?" If they're packing, they could be dangerous.
2,849
posted on
03/21/2007 3:36:51 PM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(I know where I have gone wrong, and I can cite it, chapter and verse.)
To: NicknamedBob
Okers.
Sub-level seven, here I come.
2,850
posted on
03/21/2007 3:38:52 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(She had the face of a trucker. She used it as a purse.)
To: Darksheare; NicknamedBob
2,851
posted on
03/21/2007 3:45:14 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Misery loves miserable company.......ask any liberal. Hunter in 08!)
To: stephenjohnbanker; NicknamedBob
Modesty?
Plausible deniability.
That's the ticket.
2,852
posted on
03/21/2007 3:46:36 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(She had the face of a trucker. She used it as a purse.)
To: Darksheare; NicknamedBob
The "rest?" That implies more than one...
Yep. There are definitely some faceless crowds wandering around, stumbling into things...
2,853
posted on
03/21/2007 3:46:57 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(I can resist anything but temptation.)
To: Darksheare
"Ouch."
Spider Robinson:
"Jesus Christ, Duck, knock it off! What the hell are you doing back?"
"Nap later," the Lucky Duck said. "You're working."
Ernie Shea is known to one and all as the Lucky Duck because around him the laws of probability turn to Silly Putty -- which combined with his short stature explains and may even excuse an irascible sourpuss personality reminiscent of Daffy Duck. He is a mutant, the bastard offspring of a pookah and a Fir Darrig, two creatures commonly thought to be mythical (everywhere except Ireland), and strange things always happen around him. It's sort of a paranormal power.
I was too groggy to think through the implications of his presence.
"The hell I am," I snarled. "I haven't worked in over a year. The goddam bar is as dead as Nutsy's Kells ... and the Folk Music Revival developed ice crystals in the brain from the defrosting process, they had to put it back to sleep again. There is no work, you dumb pookah!"
"You're working," he repeated. "Nikky's here. Come on."
"Huh?"
I levitated, then looked down and stuck my feet firmly to the floor. This was too weird not to be true. At my gesture, the Lucky Duck went back inside, and I followed him. And there, standing at my bar, impeccably dressed as always and wiping drool from the chin of my baby daughter Erin, was indeed and in fact Nikola Tesla.
*************************
I love the way this guy writes, especially when he isn't trying to channel Robert Heinlein.
2,854
posted on
03/21/2007 3:47:33 PM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(I know where I have gone wrong, and I can cite it, chapter and verse.)
To: Darksheare
2,855
posted on
03/21/2007 3:48:48 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Misery loves miserable company.......ask any liberal. Hunter in 08!)
To: NicknamedBob
Yeah, that sounds mightily familiar.
2,856
posted on
03/21/2007 3:49:13 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(She had the face of a trucker. She used it as a purse.)
To: Monkey Face
2,857
posted on
03/21/2007 3:49:48 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(Misery loves miserable company.......ask any liberal. Hunter in 08!)
To: Monkey Face; NicknamedBob
Elsewhere, as Pink Floyd wrote it, there are seas of faces.
2,858
posted on
03/21/2007 3:50:24 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(She had the face of a trucker. She used it as a purse.)
To: Darksheare
I like that, Darks. It's kinda like intangible solidity.
2,859
posted on
03/21/2007 3:50:31 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(I can resist anything but temptation.)
To: stephenjohnbanker
2,860
posted on
03/21/2007 3:50:46 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(She had the face of a trucker. She used it as a purse.)
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