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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thought you might enjoy these. linda</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
href="mailto:lindafowens@netzero.net"
title=lindafowens@netzero.net>lindafowens</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:lindafowens@netzero.net"
title=lindafowens@netzero.net>lindafowens</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 10, 2002 12:02 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> A Tom Swiftie Kind of Day</DIV></DIV>
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Linda F. Owens 2002]</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in">“I may have to do something
illegal to refill my empty wallet,” sang Marietta, naughtily.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in">“Quick, use the paddles on Mr.
Flatliner, and stand clear,” yelled Dr. Kildare, impulsively.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in">“Do this and do that, go here and
go there, over and over,” reiterated Pete, repeatedly.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in">“Aren’t we well-dressed for the
Beetles’ Ball?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mayfly and Glowworm
bugged their ant, nattily.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“A quick cup of tea would taste great in this wind,” steamed Lipton,
briskly.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“I love going up and down on seesaws, wearing my derby and twirling my
mustache,” oozed Mr. Tuxedo, dandily.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“Study whatever takes your fancy and stirs your passion,” fired Joseph
Campbell, blissfully.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“That’s what I got for playing with crocodiles,” minced Captain Hook,
offhandedly.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“O solo mio, I fly to Rio, to marry Tito, incognito,” trilled Lucia,
lyrically.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“I’ll scare the daylights out of those kids in this monster get-up,”
shrieked Dr. Frankenstein, frightfully.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“I’ll sweep the Triple Crown with this final race, as I was bred to do,
before my career ends,” finished Secretariat, thoroughly.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“We’re better than that rag-tag squad any day,” flounced head cheerleader
Torrance, pompously.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“More vibrato on those second violins,” intoned Professor Fiddler,
tremulously.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“I’m guessing that filming in a small coastal New England town with a
drawbridge and a pizza shop will help my career,” predicted Annabeth,
mystically.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“Come and let me cheer you up with a big kiss,” giggled T.B.,
infectiously.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“Not another trunk-load of floribundas, Fern,” moaned Blue, morosely.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“I’m not moving; it makes me gassy,” stated Argon, inertly.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“Do what you must to appear respectable,” Neon lit up, nobly.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“Bravo! Well Done! After all that work!” applauded the audience,
handily.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“Burial in a stony area is a serious matter,” unearthed Mr. Tomb,
gravely.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“An educated woman should always use her fashion sense for success,” Mrs.
Flair addressed the class, smartly.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“Keep up with me, you short-legged people,” tall Wralf<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>[my dad] ran off at the mouth,
stridently.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“Skateboard arenas are popping up everywhere,” slid off Brink’s tongue,
rampantly.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“Spread my bread, or I’ll hit you with the butter-churn,” Mr. Cream
whipped out, crankily.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in">“Cross me, and I’ll brew up a
storm,” spouted Caliban, tempestuously.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“We women want to race horses for exercise and just for the fun of it,”
Linda Rider jumped in, jocosely.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“If you don’t buy these tickets to our choral concert, we’ll still like
you, but we’ll knock your teeth out,” rang out the Sopranos, harmoniously.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-tab-count: 1">
</SPAN>“I want you, but I can’t have you,” said the tall man to the midget,
longingly.</P>
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style="mso-tab-count: 1">
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