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   Barbara's Cat to Amanda Reid   
   Re: Twitching Goober by Duckery-Cornily    
   21 Jun 08 14:29:41   
   
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   From: cat@XSPAMscientist.com   
      
   Amanda Reid wrote:   
      
   > Barbara's Cat wrote:   
   >   
   > > Meat Plow said:   
   > >   
   > > > Goober Duck Will "Truth is My Nemesis" Dockery quacked:   
   > > >   
   > > > > Meat Plow wrote:   
   > > > >   
   > > > > > Goober Duck Will "Moronic Spammer" Dockery quacked:   
   > > > > >   
   > > > > > > Twilight Girl   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > [ unreadable crap snipped ]   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > > > > What a mess.   
   > > > >   
   > > > >   
   > > > > Well, thanks for taking the time to read and comment, Meat.   
   > > >   
   > > >   
   > > > I couldn't read it, that was the comment.   
   >   
   >   
   > That's okay, he couldn't write it.   
   >   My nephew's two-year-old waddles up (hm...) with these "comments,"   
   > like "Gobby, gobby, gook, gook," and "Verbal garble normal now," and   
   > we pat her on the head and call her a good little girl.   
   >   Dockery merely insists that rap exists for the same purpose.   
   >   Something to do with the fact that the very young and the very   
   > senile sound the same.   
   >   
   > Hey -- we could do a soap, "The Young and the Senile."   
   >   Dockery would LUUUve it, as he could star in both roles and he   
   > wouldn't even hafta learn any lines.   
   >   
   >   
   > > That's OK, he couldn't read your comment either.   
   > > Reading the truth is way too painful for Goober.   
   >   
   >   
   > Re the new thread title:   
   >   Not that I disagree, but there's a point of poetic useage involved.   
   >   
   > In what way is "Twitching Goober" a refinement of identification or   
   > description?   
   >   Isn't it actually redundant?   
      
      
   I see your point, Mr Hammes, and now that I think about it,   
   I've never known a goober that didn't twitch.   
      
   Dammit! "Gobber" was a much-too-much-in-a-hurry misspell.   
   To Goober, I do apologize for that and have corrected it.   
      
   --   
   Cm~   
      
   If it posts like a duck   
   and quacks like a duck,   
   it must be a duck.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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