From: vagans@inanna.eanna.net   
      
   The Other Omar   
      
      
   ***   
      
   From: Sourcerer    
   Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 16:35:55 -0500   
   Subject: Fuckyou U.   
      
   It was a dark and stormy night...   
      
   A gust of wind blew the door open. A flash of lightning revealed the   
   dark shape of a punk, rain drenched and windblown. In one hand a   
   soggy mass of transcripts and SAT, MMPI, and Turing test scores; in   
   the other a tattered banner which read, "Fuckyou U. Go Ferrets!".   
      
   An older woman stood behind the counter. Her hair was overhennaed,   
   her makeup too thick, her perfume too strong and too cheap. She   
   looked like she needed a cigaret. The stranger felt at home.   
      
   "Transfer?", she asked.   
      
   "Yeah", he replied.   
      
   She limped over to a file cabinet. Just another registrar's office,   
   he thought...until he heard the chink 'n roll of a ball and chain.   
      
   "Name"?   
      
   "Omar".   
      
   He'd barely got it out when the heavy silence was broken by the   
   ka-chink of a dozen bolts being drawn on a variety of small arms. He   
   didn't blink or shift his steady gaze. Leaning on the counter, he   
   smiled coldly and said,   
      
   "The *other* Omar".   
      
   A second passed then two, then three. Then he heard the snicks of   
   safeties being set. The registrar breathed again.   
      
   A few minutes later he was sauntering down the hall carrying a load of   
   pamphlets (Welcome to Fuckyou U Home of the Fighting Ferrets, and   
   Dragons: Do's 'n Don'ts, among others). He found a scrap of tissue in   
   one of them. Scrawled across it in bright red lipstick, "Get Help.   
   Please!" It smelled of stale smokes and rosewater. He wadded it up   
   and batted it into the air. It landed softly in a pile of trash   
   immediately forgotten.   
      
   Laughing cruelly he saw a sign over a door. Stew U, it read.   
      
   Sounds like home, he thought. Let's see if these fuckers can handle   
   me...   
      
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