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Now you'd think that someone who volunteered for Vietnam would be somewhat circumspect about volunteering, wouldn't you? Don't argue--Sure you would and besides that, arguing makes you seem all querilous and Grumpy Bear . You don't want frown wrinkles, do you? Of course not. So just nod your head in agreement and we'll move on.
Never-the-less (said in the most Katherine Hepburn of voices) we find our Eternal Volunteer (how do you think I wound up here?) struggling to write a book report on How Reading PG Wodehouse's Golf Omnibus Changed My Life. not a topic you'll admit for somone who essentially likes to take life as easy as a bowl of prepitted cherries with instructions in English being read to him.
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I know what youre thinking: James, just knock out your usual 6 stupid lines and give the thing a rest!! A fine solution and you know I would but there's this whole dreary template thing that must be adhered to that I didn't find out about untill after I raised my hand and said "I do" again. Darn it!! They always get me that way!!
I mean its like 7 different requirements per paragraph!! Some real control issues here---you guys know I'm The Stream of Consciousness Man!!! And Stream of Consciousness Man does not like to shove his Stream of Consciousness head first into a template, it cramps So'C Man's style and So'C man chafes uncomfortably, he writhes in anguish, he moans softly: What to do what to do.
How to start? "I liked this book it made me laugh and made golf sound like fun so I tried it at a friends instigation and then I got hooked and now I'm a hopeless addict so read this book maybe you'd like it too and laugh even if you didn't wind up playing golf at a friends instigation and getting hooked and becoming a hopeless addict."
WHEW!!! well, at least one sentence down.
2d sentence: "Golf is an unusual game played by striking a white ball with a club and sending it into holes in the ground" (I have to throw this in or it would be a one sentence paragraph)
OK, now I check the template and find this will never fit in a million years even with the most vigorous contortions and rewrites. RATS!
I'm glad my day job is this, You guys will rec ANYTHING!! All I have to do to convulse my audience here is to turn to you with an exceedingly droll expression and say "MORNING OPEN THREAD WILL BEGIN IN 5...4.....3....2....1...NOW!!! ""
Aw geez, if angleajean said it, it would hit the rec list!!
Use each other softly and gently untill I get here tommorrow morning, thanks