Graham Woolley -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's not entirely clear why I injected you with truth serum. It might be the case that all of your arms are tied behind all of your backs. This is a reasonable assumption. In that case many things will begin. One of these things will be a comparison between the colors of the rainbow and violence. Red: The blood runs out of your veins, down the back of your neck Orange: Food poisoning takes you down Yellow: Several venereal diseases occur simultaneously Green: The ulna of your right arm finds a new residence in your skull Blue: Your flesh burns and yet you do not pass out Indigo: Poisoned by strong alkaloids Violet: Masticated by wolves and left to die in the cold desert wind And now an interlude written by Dingbat the Jovial Clown: peas are nice carrots too i like wolves and wolves eat you here's a list of things i'll let you borrow if I like you: everything here's an excerpt from a short story I wrote: In the 1600s, in the area that is now considered Slovenia, a small and puckish dragon coalesced from several, nay, tens of tiny little chaperone bees. The nature of a chaperone bee is to take care of a special royal person - but the clear absence of royalty in the now modern-day Slovenia manifested a clear problem - there were, in fact, several bees in residence, but no one to chaperone! Eventually one bee fell into the habit of taking care of another bee, and through dependence of this nature, 100% of bees began chaperoning 100% bees. As they chaperoned and manifested upon one another, they became physically closer and more reliant - and started to change into a separate conscious being. The nature of this being was to take care of itself extremely well. It could fly. A side effect of flying is the ability to breathe fire - it is a well known fact that all flying creatures larger than a goat can also (although not necessarily choose to) breathe pyrolithically. The local townspeople became aware of this quasi-bee transient, and only knowing of mythical past ideas and meanings, named it Dragon. It was larger the size of a small thing, but not quite the size of two small things. It is undetermined as to whether the size of Dragon was larger or smaller than three-halves of a small thing (although I could analyze the size for you, if I desired). here's a queue of things i like: kitties, caffeine, sugar, drugs, the white album, the bolshevik revolution, me [ graham30 at mit.edu ] also. oh i'm Graham