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Re: Demise of Friday Funnies



Next time you take your show on the road,
please come to New England....we need more
laughter here in the East........and thanx for
Friday Funnies!!..........

"Richard G. King Jr." wrote:

> Archivists,
> People get soooo mad.  Just because we shredded ten or
> twenty boxes of the General Counsel's active litigation
> files they got soooo upset.  [ So this lawyer staggers
> into a bar and asks, "Is this where I take the exam?]
> I tried to tell them that other people would sue us
> sooner or later so they would have new case files but
> nooooo.  They had to make a big deal out of it sooo I
> took it on the lam...I mean I took a few days off AND
> WHAT HAPPENS.  Some antiquated steam driven server
> takes it UPON ITSELF to rerun one of my Friday
> Funnies.  I got blamed for being TOTALLY SENILE just
> because I couldn't get the monitoring bracelet off and
> sneak to my computer.  And then sooo many folks wrote
> to thank me for suspending Friday Funnies.  Well, I got
> so down I went out to have a little cactus juice down
> at the Pancho Villa Peace Institute and Chimichanga
> Hut.  I'd been there a while and was working my way
> through a Lone Ranger spritzer (you know, the one with
> a little white hat on a stick) when a man's head
> without a body came floating into the bar and ordered a
> drink.  The head sort of slurped the the drink down,
> and all of his torso appeared.  The head ordered
> another drink, slurped it down and his legs appeared.
> "This is great," the head said to the bartender, "give
> me another drink.  Let's get my arms back."  The
> bartender poured him another, the head slurped it down,
> and suddenly the head, torso and legs disappeared
> altogether.  The drunk sitting next to me turned to the
> bartender and said, "It just goes to show you, he
> should have quit while was a head."
> Friday Funnies will resume after therapy.  Dick "Go
> Cats" King, University of Pimeria Alta
>
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