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First-Time Children's Book Author, Senator Edward M. Kennedy...
Yahoo Finanace News ^ | Monday January 9, 8:45 am ET | Press Release

Posted on 01/09/2006 7:43:57 AM PST by NautiNurse

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To: COBOL2Java
Hyannis - Camelot and The Continual Search For The Holy Grail

wear your waterwings

81 posted on 01/09/2006 9:03:36 AM PST by Zavien Doombringer (13th AF, 3rd TFW, 3rd AGS, 3rd AMU - ESC The Blue Screw will get you too! 86-89)
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To: NautiNurse

Oh my goodness, Kennedy wrote this book just like Byrd writes all of his speeches. Someone wrote the book Kennedy has his name on as author.


82 posted on 01/09/2006 9:05:40 AM PST by zeaal (SPREAD TRUTH!)
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To: Casloy
I wonder how much money he is getting for letting his name be used on this POS book?

The article indicates he will be donating the net profits. Sounds like he's taking a chunk of change up front to use for Happy Hour.

83 posted on 01/09/2006 9:11:42 AM PST by NautiNurse
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To: Zavien Doombringer

No, there's a routine about Uncle so-and-so's children books... They turn horrificly lewd, and the reader/narrator's face blanches, and he moves on to the next, but one is as bad as the other.


84 posted on 01/09/2006 9:13:16 AM PST by dangus
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To: Baynative

I remember reading (don't laugh) a 'High Times' magazine back in the early '70s when I was at college and it had a story called, "I was Ted Kennedy's Dealer". This was about the second or third issue of 'High Times' ever published. According to this "dealer"/author, he had provided LSD for the partiers the night of the accident and Ted Kennedy was tripping hard, and that is why he waited 11 hours (or however long) to make himself available to the police - - it took him that long to "come down". (Note: I can tell you from long-ago experience that this makes sense.)

Now, I was only about 18 when I read this story but it was amazing how everything seemed to fit. I have no idea about the veracity of the source for the story and I never heard another word about "Ted Kennedy's dealer", but I also know that the Kennedys have ways of making people go away, usually with a mixture of threats and financial incentive. LMAO, I remember that at the time I was sure this story, which was very convincing to me, would make national headlines! Ri i i ight.


85 posted on 01/09/2006 9:13:23 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: NautiNurse

I thought his dog's name was FatDrunk that Killed MaryJo.


86 posted on 01/09/2006 9:16:11 AM PST by newnhdad
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To: dangus
LOL! I remember that one!
88 posted on 01/09/2006 9:20:24 AM PST by Zavien Doombringer (13th AF, 3rd TFW, 3rd AGS, 3rd AMU - ESC The Blue Screw will get you too! 86-89)
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To: NautiNurse

Kennedy, jealous of all the attention Tookie got before his "oh so sad" ( for liberals) death, couldn't resist... "Why not me, me ME, MEEEEEEE..." ? He screamed. Where's all the folks protesting for me? I killed tooo"!! Whaaaa Whaaaa...


89 posted on 01/09/2006 9:21:39 AM PST by GOPJ
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To: dangus

Children's Stories

As featured in the Flying Circus TV Show - Episode 3


About the Sketch:


The cast:

The sketch: (Sketch opens with five seconds of Gilliam animation. To gentle children's music, we see bunnies jumping up and down. Cut to children's storyteller in studio.) Storyteller: (sitting with large children's book, at desk) Hello, Children, hello. Here is this morning's story. Are you ready? Then we'll begin. (opens book; reads) 'One day Ricky the magic Pixie went to visit Daisy Bumble in her tumbledown cottage. He found her in the bedroom. Roughly he gabbed her heavy shoulders pulling her down on to the bed and ripping off her...; (reads silently, turns over page quickly, smiles) 'Old Nick the Sea Captain was a rough tough jolly sort of fellow. He loved the life of the sea and he loved to hang out down by the pier where the men dressed as ladies...' (reads on silently; a stick enters vision and pokes him; he starts and turns over page) 'Rumpletweezer ran the Dinky Tinky shop in the foot of the magic oak tree by the wobbly dumdum bush in the shade of the magic glade down in Dingly Dell. Here he sold contraceptives and ·.. discipline?... naked? ... (without looking up, reads a bit; then, incredulously to himself) With a melon!?

90 posted on 01/09/2006 9:23:59 AM PST by Zavien Doombringer (13th AF, 3rd TFW, 3rd AGS, 3rd AMU - ESC The Blue Screw will get you too! 86-89)
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To: Zavien Doombringer

Bingo! That's the one I meant! Give the man a Crunchy Frog... or a Spring Surprise!


91 posted on 01/09/2006 9:28:01 AM PST by dangus
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To: Zavien Doombringer

Bingo! That's the one I meant! Give the man a Crunchy Frog... or a Spring Surprise!


92 posted on 01/09/2006 9:28:31 AM PST by dangus
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To: dangus
(Cut to studio. A door opens. Inspector Praline looks round door. )

Inspector Praline: (to camera) Hello. (he walks in followed by Superintendent Parrot and goes to desk) Mr Milton? You are sole proprietor and owner of the Whizzo Chocolate Company?

Milton: I am.

Praline: Superintendent Parrot and I are from the hygiene squad. We want to have a word with you about your box of chocolates entified The Whizzo Quality Assortment.

Milton: Ah, yes.

Praline: (producing box of chocolates) If I may begin at the beginning. First there is the cherry fondue. This is extremely nasty, but we can't prosecute you for that.

Milton: Agreed.

Praline: Next we have number four, 'crunchy frog'.

Milton: Ah, yes.

Praline: Am I right in thinking there's a real frog in here?

Milton: Yes. A little one.

Praline: What sort of frog?

Milton: A dead frog.

Praline: Is it cooked?

Milton: No.

Praline: What, a raw frog?

(Superintendent Parrot looks increasingly queasy.)

Milton: We use only the finest baby frogs, dew picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose.

Praline: That's as maybe, it's still a frog.

Milton: What else?

Praline: Well don't you even take the bones out?

Milton: If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?

Praline: Superintendent Parrot ate one of those.

Parrot: Excuse me a moment. (exits hurriedly)

Milton: It says 'crunchy frog' quite clearly.

Praline: Well, the superintendent thought it was an almond whirl. People won't expect there to be a frog in there. They're bound to think it's some form of mock frog.

Milton: (insulted) Mock frog? We use no artificial preservatives or additives of any kind!

Praline: Nevertheless, I must warn you that in future you should delete the words 'crunchy frog', and replace them with the legend 'crunchy raw unboned real dead frog', if you want to avoid prosecution.

Milton: What about our sales?

Praline: I'm not interested in your sales, I have to protect the general public. Now how about this one. (superintendent enters) It was number five, wasn't it? (superintendent nods) Number five, ram's bladder cup. (exit superintendent) What kind of confection is this?

Milton: We use choicest juicy chunks of fresh Cornish ram's bladder, emptied, steamed, flavoured with sesame seeds whipped into a fondue and garnished with lark's vomit.

Praline: Lark's vomit?

Milton: Correct.

Praline: Well it don't say nothing about that here.

Milton: Oh yes it does, on the bottom of the box, after monosodium glutamate.

Praline: (looking) Well I hardly think this is good enough. I think it would be more appropriate if the box bore a large red label warning lark's vomit.

Milton: Our sales would plummet.

Praline: Well why don't you move into more conventional areas of confectionery, like praline or lime cream; a very popular flavour I'm led to understand. (superintendent enters) I mean look at this one, 'cockroach cluster', (superintendent exits) 'anthrax ripple'. What's this one, 'spring surprise'?

Milton: Ah - now, that's our speciality - covered with darkest creamy chocolate. When you pop it in your mouth steel bolts spring out and plunge straight through-both cheeks.

Praline: Well where's the pleasure in that? If people place a nice chocky in their mouth, they don't want their cheeks pierced. In any case this is an inadequate description of the sweetmeat. I shall have to ask you to accompany me to the station.

Milton: (getting up from desk and being led away) It's a fair cop.

Praline: Stop talking to the camera.

Milton: I'm sorry.

(Superintendent Parrot enters the room as Inspector Praline and Milton leave, and addresses the camera.)

Parrot: If only the general public would take more care when buying its sweeties, it would reduce the number of man-hours lost to the nation and they would spend less time having their stomachs pumped and sitting around in public lavatories.

Announcer: The BBC would like to apologize for the extremely poor quality of the next announcement, only he's not at all well.

Parrot: We present 'The Dull Life of a City Stockbroker'.

93 posted on 01/09/2006 9:32:06 AM PST by Zavien Doombringer (13th AF, 3rd TFW, 3rd AGS, 3rd AMU - ESC The Blue Screw will get you too! 86-89)
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To: dubyaismypresident
You just can't make up things like The Swimmer with a dog named Splash.

Will I see you at CPAC in Feb?

94 posted on 01/09/2006 9:34:44 AM PST by NautiNurse
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To: NautiNurse

Oh, I guess that explains that new Hollywierd "Free Teddy" demonstration outside of San Quenton.


95 posted on 01/09/2006 9:47:27 AM PST by SmithL (Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Lift up your gates and sing, Hosana in the highest! Hosana to your King!)
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To: NautiNurse
Well now that Tookie is gone and Madonna seems to be spending more time mothering and singing, Ted has stepped up to fill the Child Book Author void.
96 posted on 01/09/2006 9:56:28 AM PST by jackieaxe (Tancreto in '08)
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To: Baynative
The truth of what happened at Chappaquiddick 35 years ago will never be known. It died with Mary Jo Kopechne.

We all know what happened. A man of privilege got away with Manslaughter. He was out partying and cheating on his pregnant wife (who eventually had a miscarriage). After he drove the car into the water, he headed for the hotel and called everybody but the police. Also, the legal fix was in. Ted was allowed to plead guilty to leaving the scene of an accident. No Boooze charge, no driving without a license charge and no manslaughter charge. There may be a few details that are not 100% known, but we do know what happened that night.
97 posted on 01/09/2006 10:06:11 AM PST by jackieaxe (Tancreto in '08)
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To: Lancey Howard

You know it could be the case - I suppose anything is possible. One thing I've often wondered about is how did Teddy get across the water to Edgartown? If I remember correctly he claims to have swum from Chappy to Edgartown where he holed up in the hotel - somehow for me that story does not, um, hold water, and I always wondered how it really went down.


98 posted on 01/09/2006 10:12:44 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (Is your problem ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: NautiNurse
Will I see you at CPAC in Feb?

I don't think so. I have no vacation time yet. I do plan to make CPAC 2007, though.

99 posted on 01/09/2006 10:17:31 AM PST by NeoCaveman (starving the beast didn't work, they just kept spending anyway)
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To: Borges
Splash is his dog's name?!?!?! You have got to be kidding me! No one can convince me that none of his family, advisers, lawyers, etc. mentioned to him that this might not be a good idea to name the dog Splash. No one in the Kennedy "circle of trust" said to him, "Look, this would just bring on more bad publicity"????? No, you KNOW that he was told, so this is even MORE evidence of him thumbing his big, fat, drunken-red proboscis at everyone, including the Kopechnes.
100 posted on 01/09/2006 10:26:07 AM PST by admiralsn (Friends are just strangers you haven't met yet.)
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