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August 18, 2002:

NOT FOR ALL THE TEA IN CHINA

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Well, dear readers, I have now rewritten this sentence at least four times and frankly I am rather bored with doing so, so this is the sentence we’re all going to have to live with because I shan’t rewrite it again, not even for all the tea in China. Not that all the tea in China is of any interest to me, as I find tea as boring as the first sentence. But I shan’t rewrite it again, not for all the tea in China nor all the coffee in Bombay. Well, perhaps today’s notes will be international in flavor – we’ve already mentioned far-off China and Bombay, perhaps we should put on our seven-league boots and travel to other exotic locales. Excuse me for just a moment.

No, I’m afraid we cannot travel to any more exotic locales because I only have a pair of fershluganah five-league boots, and everyone knows that unless you have seven-league boots you cannot travel to exotic locales. However, with my five-league boots I could travel to La Crescenta if I so chose. However, I choose to not so chose – or should it be I chose to not so choose – or should it be I chose to not so chews? I am suddenly adrift in a sea of choices, dear readers and all because I have five-league boots rather than seven-league boots.

Do you know that thus far we have only had one count them one guess to our handy-dandy trivia contest, and even that guess was missing one of the answers. Now, you trivia people must put on your thinking caps and do your research. I know there are difficult components to the question, but you wouldn’t want it too easy, would you?

Do you know that someone came to this here site and used our handy-dandy Unseemly Search box and tried to search “Jimmy Kimmel”? Damn them, damn them all to hell. Then someone else showed up, one of our regular searchers and searched for something else. I would have thought that our regular searchers were done with all this searching, but no, search they do, and that is fine because that is what our handy-dandy Unseemly Search box is for. People can search until the cows come home as far as I am concerned. In fact, I am going to search right now, because those fershluganah cows are still out. I am going to search “not for all the tea in China” and I’ll bet I get at least three hits (ALTH, in Internet lingo).

Well, why don’t we just all click on the Unseemly Button below so we can git along little doggies, or should that be little doughgies, or should that be little doughnuts? I feel these notes are becoming worthy of Mr. Eugene Ionesco.

I have now rewritten this sentence twice and I shan’t be rewriting it again, not for all the tea in China, nor for all the root beer in Glendale.

I had a lovely Italian dinner last night with cousin Alan and his lovely wife, Dee Dee. As we were leaving the restaurant I noticed my friend, Mr. Rob Bowers, sitting in a booth and I said hello to him. Mr. Bowers was my handy-dandy musical director on my musical comedy entitled Together Again, and he is an extremely talented fellow, and a very good songwriter as well. We spoke of many things, and he suggested we do a revue of my material. What would you dear readers think of that idea? A revue of my material would be splendid, would it not? I have wonderful material, such as cotton, silks and satins, satins and spurs, nylon tricot, wool, polyester, and tweed. I think a revue of that material would be wonderful, but I’d like to get your opinion on the matter.

Recently, several of my friends and acquaintances have told me about their experiences using an online dating service. Have any of you dear readers used such a contraption? I am fascinated by these things and I shall do a little nosing around the Internet today and I shall write of my findings, online dating service-wise, tomorrow. Wasn’t that a good tease? That’s like what they do on the news now – they tease, and then make you wait for the story. Well, I say phut to those news people, but I do not say phut to me.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must arrange to take possession of all the tea in China and all the Vernor’s in Vernon. I must get in my automobile and traverse the streets of my fair city, and then I must nose around the Internet (NATI, in Internet lingo) and see what I can find about online dating services. Today’s topic of discussion: Today is free-for-all day, so let’s see some interesting and fun topics, you Hainsies/Kimlets. We ended up with quite a fine number of interesting posts yesterday, and I did love hearing about your dreams, and I also loved all the dream songs we came up with, although I think somehow we missed one of the most obvious – I’ll See You in My Dreams. In any case, post away, my pretties.

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