tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81891250119130174912024-03-04T12:23:20.747-08:00Monkey ManLost somewhere between knuckle draggin' and upright.Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.comBlogger441125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-44820548147072679592013-02-14T08:42:00.000-08:002013-02-14T08:43:04.893-08:00My coffee loves me <div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not dead</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not dying</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just in hibernation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Waiting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ever watching</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For inspired heat</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To raise the muse</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From its frigid slumber</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Watching</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Waiting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the heat</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the sign</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the muse</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In its innocent coincidental form</span></div>
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<br />Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-86285099731110018362012-04-26T17:02:00.000-07:002012-04-26T17:02:00.204-07:0055 - Cosmic Voyage(r)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">at a bank of monitors </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">as Voyager pressed against </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">the foamy walls of the heliospheric
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The little probe was on the verge </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“I wonder what the hole in the bubble will do to us?”, one asked
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="">Lumbering along </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="">as if there were no connection </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="">between muscles and brain </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="">he stared with unfocused eyes. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="">Teeth gleaming blood red </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="">and dripping with the pink of gray matter. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="">His pallor betrayed him </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="">as he trudged forward </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="">in a jerky motion </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="">toward his prey </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="">who exclaimed, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="">"Dude. Really? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="">The costume is great, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="">but it's Easter."</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">_________________________________________</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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_____________________________________________________ </div>Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-25649632387488225512012-03-22T17:02:00.001-07:002012-03-22T17:02:00.732-07:0055 - Close Encounters<div style="text-align: center;">A gentle touch caressed her ear, </div><div style="text-align: center;">stroked her hair </div><div style="text-align: center;">and gently brushed her neck. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Cheeks flushed. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Spine tingling. </div><div style="text-align: center;">She turned to face the source of this encounter </div><div style="text-align: center;">and gasped at what confronted her. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Nothing. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Nothing but air</div><div style="text-align: center;"> and the rush she felt </div><div style="text-align: center;">pulsing through her body. </div><div style="text-align: center;">There was one certainty. </div><div style="text-align: center;">This was no <i>evil</i> spirit.</div><div style="text-align: center;">_________________________________________</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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_____________________________________________________ </div>Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-5790932144495950772012-03-15T17:02:00.001-07:002012-03-15T17:02:00.172-07:0055 - That Sinking Feeling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw9TYinpfRkOYzXDGRhkElhqVDB7LnEshUSl0Sw_1NMiUBwdOT5A-UJfTv6i_Ii2_yKQF0u1fRT2QCXRKzWAbqdQkeloz52biEllm_lhFmh5DKS2HA49X_FifwZbSbVU0ChUqjfW3-Pz82/s1600/reaching.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw9TYinpfRkOYzXDGRhkElhqVDB7LnEshUSl0Sw_1NMiUBwdOT5A-UJfTv6i_Ii2_yKQF0u1fRT2QCXRKzWAbqdQkeloz52biEllm_lhFmh5DKS2HA49X_FifwZbSbVU0ChUqjfW3-Pz82/s320/reaching.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Sinking further and further into the abyss, </div><div style="text-align: center;">he began to flail in panic. </div><div style="text-align: center;">His life was coming down </div><div style="text-align: center;">to these last few second </div><div style="text-align: center;">then a calm came over him. </div><div style="text-align: center;">He spread his arms, </div><div style="text-align: center;">lifted his head </div><div style="text-align: center;">and waited </div><div style="text-align: center;">to be completely </div><div style="text-align: center;">enveloped. </div><div style="text-align: center;">This was one sofa </div><div style="text-align: center;">he would never be able to get up from. </div><div style="text-align: center;">_________________________________________</div><br />
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_____________________________________________________ </div>Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-9667132315481181402012-02-28T16:30:00.007-08:002012-02-28T16:30:00.154-08:00What The Hell Wednesday - Honor Among Thieves?<span class="story_dl">What can I say, I had a moment of boredom and decided to check some of my old sources for inspiration and that is exactly what I found. So now I get an opportunity to go off on an old tangent and rant about some idiot - or in this case - group of idiots that are sharp as marbles.</span><br />
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<span class="story_dl" style="color: #cccccc;">NEW YORK -- </span><span style="color: #660000;">Police in New York said an attempted mugging was foiled when one of the alleged attackers shot an alleged accomplice in the leg.</span><br />
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</div><div style="color: #660000;">Investigators said the victims, 17 and 20-year-old males, were confronted by a group of eight muggers around 4 a.m. Sunday at Hunts Point Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard in the Bronx and they fled to a nearby subway station, the <i>New York Post</i> reported Monday.</div><div style="color: #660000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #660000;">The men refused to give the muggers any money and a member of the gang attempted to strike one of the men with a gun, but the weapon discharged and struck one of his fellow suspects in the leg.</div><div style="color: #660000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #660000;">Police said most of the muggers fled, but Randall Harvey, 20, was arrested and treated for his leg wound. Steve Boria, 16, who stayed behind to tend to his wounded friend, was also arrested.</div><div style="color: #660000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #660000;">Both men were charged with robbery. </div><div style="text-align: center;">______________</div><br />
Okay, I am sure you are wonder why I titled this "<i>Honor Among Thieves?</i>" as much as I am wondering what two barely over adolescent boys are doing out at 4:00 AM. Well it's as obvious as the hole in Randall Harvey's leg. One of the muggers stayed behind to help his buddy. What an honorable thing to do while you're mugging someone.<br />
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So....Cheers!....Steve. What a great self sacrificing guy you are. Stand by your man and all that stuff. But that still doesn't change the fact that you are a loser and a thug and probably deserved that bullet about as much as your friend did.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Harsh? Maybe. But I have no space in my heart for the heartless. They get what they deserve and in this case it was being shot by one of your genius gang friends. What a douche. I can just hear it now. </div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"></div><br />
<div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"You doan gimme no money an I gonna stawt by plunkin' you in da hed witt da butt uh dis gun." <span style="font-size: large;">BANG!</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">"SHIT!! Randy bin shot. Let's get outta here."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
</div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Scared by his own gun. What a man. I am sure his mamma is proud. I am also sure Randy looked down after he heard the shot and felt the pain and simply said, "What the Hell?"</div>Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-39224025479531062362012-02-23T17:02:00.001-08:002012-02-23T17:02:00.608-08:0055 - Primal Fears<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS3pwgeYX9kjb7Qd9jYGfoo41Lp6hfHH5vDCrW_3kuQnjxTYOxWJjKXlEjg6mVqDlrA7_UCtQwxJ5sMXkXmFN-qxQ6KbwyFwEhqQHsN7S5-iwo6eof585Z_KM96j6XNOEx0Wczg1vH0sNt/s1600/scream.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS3pwgeYX9kjb7Qd9jYGfoo41Lp6hfHH5vDCrW_3kuQnjxTYOxWJjKXlEjg6mVqDlrA7_UCtQwxJ5sMXkXmFN-qxQ6KbwyFwEhqQHsN7S5-iwo6eof585Z_KM96j6XNOEx0Wczg1vH0sNt/s320/scream.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">A scream retched forth </div><div style="text-align: center;">from the darkest depths of his soul. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Brought forth </div><div style="text-align: center;">by a fear so deep seated </div><div style="text-align: center;">that he shook in terror </div><div style="text-align: center;">even as the vibration of the sound </div><div style="text-align: center;">pierced ears </div><div style="text-align: center;">and rattled the foundation </div><div style="text-align: center;">of his very essence. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Sadly, it was a story repeated </div><div style="text-align: center;">every time he drove to the dentist’s office.</div><div style="text-align: center;">_________________________________________</div><br />
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_____________________________________________________ </div>Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-3165177204263439762012-02-16T17:02:00.000-08:002012-02-16T17:02:00.654-08:0055 - Virtuoso<style>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Hands flew with grace and fluidity across the keyboard. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Notes appeared as if out of thin air. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">A virtuoso. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">A prodigy. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">If he could imagine it, </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">sound would burst from his fingertips. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">He closed his eyes </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">and continued to play </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">until a voice interrupted to say, </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">“Stop playing air piano while you’re driving the car.”</div>Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-52030653905418869962012-01-27T08:08:00.000-08:002012-01-27T08:08:27.515-08:00Snap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh82kgy9YeT9bD1NDkgOPXIalDJFs0yqBs6gDbmm1cIVkZdeWxqfmRDqGVF8eHAJw2jnzqQXOgmbjFXEPb1uVkT_TUVnHFiE_mFaiidMBQkMNgpW8OjyetXNBN81ulikpnAK5jp7px_0sOS/s1600/pencil.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh82kgy9YeT9bD1NDkgOPXIalDJFs0yqBs6gDbmm1cIVkZdeWxqfmRDqGVF8eHAJw2jnzqQXOgmbjFXEPb1uVkT_TUVnHFiE_mFaiidMBQkMNgpW8OjyetXNBN81ulikpnAK5jp7px_0sOS/s320/pencil.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tap </span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tap </span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tap </span></div><div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Snap </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">Broken words</span></div>Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-67521525079808973912012-01-04T07:56:00.000-08:002012-01-04T07:57:36.895-08:00What The Hell Wednesday - Iowa InsanityResurrected for today - another What the Well Wednesday. This time I simply ask, "Is it just Iowa that is insane? Or is it all of America?", after reading the headline in my morning paper that said "Romney, Santorum in surprise tie".<br />
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These are choices? A man who blames liberalism for abuse in the Catholic Church versus a man who believes that life begins at the moment of conception? In whose reality?<br />
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It appears that conservatism truly believes the only way to garner attention is to pander to extremist groups. In this case the far right. My only hope is that it is then the far right whose votes have been tallied in Iowa and this isn't a true consensus of the Grand Old Party.<br />
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It appears those smart enough and talented enough to run for America's highest office are also smart enough to run away from it. The position is now the crowning achievement of ambition for career politicians and not a home for true leadership.<br />
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It is a sad state America when we pick up our morning papers and see those headlines, shake our heads and mutter "What the Hell?"Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-37626101429108951732011-12-24T13:56:00.000-08:002011-12-24T13:57:23.720-08:00Merry Christmas to all<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDY27cCd2zRwcqL4k6Loco0sTDfGjIAUq0QGVOjbizkcvwAgV3vDKoYzNc0vffcv-OMbN16f-yKUy93w1kn5MYAD3Iqy3zICVEB0oWvZM-fIzkYZXsWaHpDJ2C6IfLPZwMymBe7VExezh1/s1600/Santa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDY27cCd2zRwcqL4k6Loco0sTDfGjIAUq0QGVOjbizkcvwAgV3vDKoYzNc0vffcv-OMbN16f-yKUy93w1kn5MYAD3Iqy3zICVEB0oWvZM-fIzkYZXsWaHpDJ2C6IfLPZwMymBe7VExezh1/s320/Santa.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Christmas preparation was slow and precise</div><div style="text-align: center;">Trying to assure all turned out real nice</div><div style="text-align: center;">As he counted out gifts for all round the world</div><div style="text-align: center;">In his beard and his mustache his fingers they twirled</div><div style="text-align: center;">Then boarding his sleigh on one thing he did dwell</div><div style="text-align: center;"> Did he remember to spray on that new present smell</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Merry Christmas to all.</div>Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-23026341118319761242011-12-13T09:15:00.000-08:002011-12-13T09:15:13.634-08:00Intermission<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HNY8eYmzdH4" width="420"></iframe><br />
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When I first started this blog I included a playlist. This song was first on my list. Please enjoy my all time favorite band while I ponder the future.Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-18617226390047369132011-12-03T17:00:00.000-08:002011-12-03T17:00:01.734-08:00Sunday 160 - The End<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7nf_B0u48Om1NOz6RKPkgiYERkowOx8X_JSRl7L4TiIALKsAkztjQPuGjXfJdBDI8Wjpog8J4oKveFUJ7z7dCOdeZ_JMPhpPu_bVMZQMGXEwlebroppYqf0wxV3zqdzCAg4CbRKmE0upx/s1600/End.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7nf_B0u48Om1NOz6RKPkgiYERkowOx8X_JSRl7L4TiIALKsAkztjQPuGjXfJdBDI8Wjpog8J4oKveFUJ7z7dCOdeZ_JMPhpPu_bVMZQMGXEwlebroppYqf0wxV3zqdzCAg4CbRKmE0upx/s320/End.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">It had been a coaster ride of emotions – </div><div style="text-align: center;">happy, </div><div style="text-align: center;">sad, </div><div style="text-align: center;">angry, </div><div style="text-align: center;">funny, </div><div style="text-align: center;">depressed, </div><div style="text-align: center;">inspired – </div><div style="text-align: center;">but the time had come </div><div style="text-align: center;">for the ride to end. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Stay inspired </div><div style="text-align: center;">and </div><div style="text-align: center;">good bye.</div><div style="text-align: center;">________________________ </div><br />
This is the last Sunday 160 I will host. I began writing Sunday 160's as a way to commit myself to a weekly blog post. Now the time has come to take a break. Thank each and every one of you for participating at some time over the past couple of years.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">-30-</div>Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com48tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-7058983815266124432011-12-01T17:02:00.000-08:002011-12-01T17:02:00.167-08:0055 - Charmed<div style="text-align: center;">His life seemed charmed. </div><div style="text-align: center;">The right job was there when he needed it. </div><div style="text-align: center;">People came into his life at just the right moment. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Even when finances looked desperate, </div><div style="text-align: center;">money would arrive. </div><div style="text-align: center;">He felt like he had it all </div><div style="text-align: center;">and it all led to this very moment in time. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Now, all he could do was smile.</div><div style="text-align: center;">_________________________________________</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">This is a Flash Fiction Friday 55</div><div style="text-align: center;">hosted by Mr. Knowitall.</div><div style="text-align: center;">For more 55's pay him a visit -</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://g-man-mrknowitall.blogspot.com/">Mr. Knowitall.</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>If you think Micro Fictions are fun. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Come join me for a <a href="http://petzoldspracticalprose.blogspot.com/2009/06/sunday-160.html">Sunday 160</a>.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A challenge using exactly 160 characters </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>in a story, poem or writing of your choice.</b></span><br />
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<div style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></div></div>Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-65299880800687388162011-11-29T15:58:00.000-08:002011-11-29T15:58:02.359-08:00What The Hell Wednesday - Little Old Lady My AssA number of What The Hell Wednesdays have featured heroes who have thwarted crimes. I love those and wish I could find more, but they just don't show up as frequently as just plain old activities by the criminally stupid <span style="font-size: x-small;">which is a redundancy</span>. <br />
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<div style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">59 Year Old Woman Chases Down Purse Snatcher</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">LONGVIEW, Wash.</span> <span style="color: #990000;">- A 59-year-old woman chased down a purse snatcher who was fleeing on a bicycle in Longview pulled him to the ground and grabbed back her purse.</span><br />
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</div><div style="color: #990000;">Two witnesses detained the man until officers arrived.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">According to court documents filed this week, the theft took place in a Safeway parking lot last Friday. The woman chased the bicyclist about 15 feet.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">The purse contained $62 and five credit cards.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">A Cowlitz County Superior Court judge found probable cause to charge 29-year-old Mark Grendahl Jr. of Longview with five counts of second-degree theft. He was held Wednesday evening in the Cowlitz County Jail on $25,000 bail.</div><div style="text-align: center;">__________________________ </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I am thinking the purse snatcher should have learned how to ride a bike <span style="font-size: large;">before</span> he decided to use it as a getaway vehicle. What was this guy....12....I know...I know, I read it....he was 29.....going on 12. But caught after going only 15 feet??? That's hardly the length of an SUV. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I don't like that the article makes 59 sound old. I know some 59-year-olds who are in better shape than 29-year-olds, not to mention a ton smarter. Smart enough to know they can outrun a klutz trying to hop on a bike and try to speed away. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Hey, Mark! How did it feel when that 59-year-old knocked you off your bike? You like road rash? Bet you weren't wearing a helmet either. Leave some scalp on the parking lot? I hope the police used the old kind of Bactine that really stung when you put it on as they cleaned up his scrapes and scratches.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">So, cheers to you - 59-year-old woman - for kicking ass and taking names. You are my new hero until the next one comes up on line.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I can just see Mark's surprised face as he looked up from under his bike and saw he just got taken down by a woman old enough to be his mom. I will also bet you he said, "What the Hell?"</div>Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-44395730842657499712011-11-26T19:30:00.000-08:002011-11-26T19:30:00.281-08:00Sunday 160 - Pie to the Tenth Power<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNcvSwe3bc9w2N1B6kIjvW1N-rI90tIW6ON0OUMiyJbGk48mXfPUrA-juNIMK8TdyHLXowrOS6iOEBD2Xtzg2M_TWhpshvBKtb1qH0koXu7QdsYJClVrFms1mXVVktUb9_NIJFex5xR7rK/s1600/pie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNcvSwe3bc9w2N1B6kIjvW1N-rI90tIW6ON0OUMiyJbGk48mXfPUrA-juNIMK8TdyHLXowrOS6iOEBD2Xtzg2M_TWhpshvBKtb1qH0koXu7QdsYJClVrFms1mXVVktUb9_NIJFex5xR7rK/s320/pie.jpg" width="191" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">None could bake pumpkin pie </div><div style="text-align: center;">the way she could. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Rich, yet light. </div><div style="text-align: center;">His mouth watered </div><div style="text-align: center;">at the thought of it </div><div style="text-align: center;">sliding down his throat </div><div style="text-align: center;">like God dressed in silk pajamas.</div><div style="text-align: center;">______________________________<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">1.</span> The Sunday 160 only uses <i style="color: purple;"><b>EXACTLY</b> </i>160 characters <span style="color: #660000;">(including spaces)</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">2.</span> </span>Keep on schedule - post after 8:00 PM Pacific Time on Saturday.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">3.</span> </span>Let me know you have posted via a comment on my site.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: #660000;">(Be sure to mention you have posted a 160. Provide a link if you can)</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">4.</span> Visit at least one other Sunday 160 writer.</div><div style="text-align: center;">____________________</div>Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-14938204997127914092011-11-24T17:02:00.000-08:002011-11-24T17:02:00.577-08:0055 - Burdened<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYRJCwd0nZ5YHrFFy2f-y66vmxcUt5HACEgEDBy0whcaGuqAVZVTWPAHKWTNUCdgWqp8EjFJlyuh28k_nmFF4Dp3Efk_VJizZ3qTtLULx2Lr-q0lGgkTMrLRlFC8ihyphenhyphenFRJ3alUt1-06gNS/s1600/Atlas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYRJCwd0nZ5YHrFFy2f-y66vmxcUt5HACEgEDBy0whcaGuqAVZVTWPAHKWTNUCdgWqp8EjFJlyuh28k_nmFF4Dp3Efk_VJizZ3qTtLULx2Lr-q0lGgkTMrLRlFC8ihyphenhyphenFRJ3alUt1-06gNS/s320/Atlas.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Struggling to get a full grip with his situation, </div><div style="text-align: center;">he felt the weight of the world on his shoulders. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Gasping for air under the extreme crush, </div><div style="text-align: center;">he was panicked over the constraint. </div><div style="text-align: center;">How would he extract himself from this situation? </div><div style="text-align: center;">Then he heard, </div><div style="text-align: center;">“Get off your father’s back, you two. </div><div style="text-align: center;">You know he gets claustrophobic.”</div><div style="text-align: center;">_________________________________________</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>If you think Micro Fictions are fun. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Come join me for a <a href="http://petzoldspracticalprose.blogspot.com/2009/06/sunday-160.html">Sunday 160</a>.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A challenge using exactly 160 characters </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>in a story, poem or writing of your choice.</b></span><br />
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<div style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #783f04;">Happy Thanksgiving to you all. </span></b></span></div>Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-7755895029203189532011-11-22T15:30:00.000-08:002011-11-22T15:30:00.417-08:00What The Hell Wednesday - An Axe to GrindHere is a post-Halloween tidbit I just couldn't resist. Yes, I know it's the week before Thanksgiving, but I can't post these stories before they are printed....if you know what I mean.<br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">AKRON, Ohio </span> <span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;">-</span> An Ohio man who carried a rubber prop ax into a bar before Halloween is trying to get prosecutors to dismiss an inducing panic charge.</span><br />
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<div style="color: #660000;"><i>The Akron Beacon Journal </i>reports that 42-year-old Bill Morrison is a Halloween enthusiast who has long worked on seasonal haunted house attractions. He told Akron police he went to Corky's Thomastown bar on Oct. 16 to sell a friend the costume ax, which had red paint to make it appear bloody.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #660000; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwvVP5dZ0k93v_7_slBFKRlEHeixYGzaosjH1zzw8GVC-OieID7SfH4tx0VDpPz1DgV8qMsYtD_DrDMy7LAMeruHV8yGH3BFz6C_DV1hn-9x8BzvucPVMLX1O5Mgm819yBLxHT3SlHQGRD/s1600/rubber+axe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwvVP5dZ0k93v_7_slBFKRlEHeixYGzaosjH1zzw8GVC-OieID7SfH4tx0VDpPz1DgV8qMsYtD_DrDMy7LAMeruHV8yGH3BFz6C_DV1hn-9x8BzvucPVMLX1O5Mgm819yBLxHT3SlHQGRD/s200/rubber+axe.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="color: #660000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #660000;">A woman who saw Morrison with the ax under his coat called 911 and said he looked suspicious.</div><div style="color: #660000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #660000;">Morrison was jailed overnight before being released on bond.</div><div style="color: #660000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #660000;">His attorney, Ed Sawan, says the charges appear to be unfounded. Akron City Prosecutor Doug Powley indicates his office is still studying the case.</div><div style="text-align: center;">_____________________ </div><br />
I know, this dates <span style="font-size: large;">waaaaay </span>back to October 16, but <span style="font-size: large;">really</span>, the story didn't appear on my favorite web source until today, November 22. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">For you readers outside the good old USofA that's my favourite web source.</span> But enough about the somewhat tardy appearance of this article, let's talk about it.<br />
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First, I think that is an awesome Halloween axe and I wish I had one. Second, what is Bill Morrison doing hiding it under his coat? If this were his regular bar, you'd think he would come in all angry like brandishing the axe over his head screaming like a wild man asking where his buddy was. But not knowing anything about this bar, maybe Bill thought if he did that he would get shot. Ya never know.<br />
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So, he slides into the bar all coy-like with a fake axe hidden under his coat and freaks some half drunk idiot out of her bloomers. She calls 9-1-1 and poor Bill is arrested for nearly in-sighting a riot, er, I mean....inducing panic. <span style="font-size: large;">Inducing panic?</span> <i><b>Shee-it</b>.</i> I think the woman who called 9-1-1 would be induced to panic if someone walked up behind her and said "Hi!"<br />
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Okay, Bill is arrested. His buddy doesn't get the axe he wanted as a Halloween prop and the police get to pose for pictures.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Isn't that a cool axe? Did I say I want one?</span> Meanwhile nosy 9-1-1 lady drives off in a drunken stupor to buzz kill someone else's fun. We will probably read about her in a later post after she blows the whistle on someone who isn't as nice as Bill and meets an untimely end with an axe that isn't fake.<br />
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For sure, as Bill was belly up to the bar, axe in hand, slugging back a few, he was caught by surprise by the Akron police and, as they cuffed him and shove him and his <span style="font-size: xx-small;">cool</span> axe into the squad car, said "What the Hell?"Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-29361268494171695592011-11-19T19:30:00.000-08:002011-11-19T19:30:00.815-08:00Sunday 160 - Little Girl Lost<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi5A6TzOv1VZ_h5LrUjAyIrp0lDq85tpfd15aohWYNk1w369KBvb5Z5s1ethKO7fkEkNsVlI0JS0NALVEsKPIYZh9-N_Njc-exlZTyhDnMbT6Z4xxoZb4oYCCWp5KkmqRHplMSeRKaiLZR/s1600/fear.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi5A6TzOv1VZ_h5LrUjAyIrp0lDq85tpfd15aohWYNk1w369KBvb5Z5s1ethKO7fkEkNsVlI0JS0NALVEsKPIYZh9-N_Njc-exlZTyhDnMbT6Z4xxoZb4oYCCWp5KkmqRHplMSeRKaiLZR/s200/fear.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alarms kept her in a state of constant alert. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Uncertainty crushed thoughts </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">of potential adventures. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">What ifs ruled the day. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was sad how anxiety ran her life.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">______________________________<br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you want to play along with the Sunday 160. Here are the rules. </span></div></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">His hand nervously hovered over the button. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">He had been waiting </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">for someone else to make the final call, </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">not wanting to be responsible </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">for what would be an historic event </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">that would affect millions of lives. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">As the clocked ticked down, </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">the button was pushed. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">History forever linked him to - </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">The Heidi Game.</div><div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: red; text-align: center;">________________________________ </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">On this date in history, Dick Cline, an NBC programmer hit the button that switched from the November 17, 1968 <span style="font-size: xx-small;">okay this is Thursday’s date and this <b><i>is</i></b> a Flash Fiction <i><b>Friday</b></i> but I’m going with it</span> Oakland Raiders versus New York Jets football game to the movie Heidi. With only 65 seconds left in the game, the Jets kicked a field goal to give them a 32-29 lead. After commercial break, the network went to their originally scheduled 7:00 PM airing of the movie Heidi. What fans across America missed after that was two touchdowns by the Oakland Raiders in a span of nine seconds. So many irate fans called NBC after game results were flashed on the screen 20 minutes later, that their switchboard <span style="font-size: xx-small;">yes, switchboard…this was 1968, remember!</span> literally blew a fuse. Even emergency lines were clogged for hours <span style="font-size: xx-small;">and you thought Katrina was a disaster</span>. Final score Raiders - 43 Jets - 29 NBC - 0.</div><div style="text-align: center;">_________________________________________</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>If you think Micro Fictions are fun. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Come join me for a <a href="http://petzoldspracticalprose.blogspot.com/2009/06/sunday-160.html">Sunday 160</a>.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A challenge using exactly 160 characters </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>in a story, poem or writing of your choice.</b></span></div>Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-29057085498725947222011-11-15T17:00:00.000-08:002011-11-15T18:32:37.803-08:00What The Hell Wednesday - Soy SuitThere is nothing like reading about the incarcerated complaining about their conditions. Let alone suing over them. Check out this story about an "entitled" prisoner. <br />
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<div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Prisoner Sues over Soy Meals</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">CLERMONT, Fla. – </span><span style="color: #990000;">A Florida inmate is suing the state’s prison system for pulling the pork from his meals.</span><br />
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</div><div style="color: #990000;">Eric Harris, a 32-year-old convicted pedophile who is serving a life sentence, suggests Lake Correctional Institution’s policy of serving a vegan diet is seriously affecting the quality of his life sentence.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">The Weston A. Price Foundation, a special interest group against soy products, will pick up the case’s legal expenses, and announced it has class-action ambitions including other prisoners, prison guards and taxpayers.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">The foundation began receiving complaints from Florida prisoners in 2009, when cooks replaced 60-70 percent of meat in meals with soy substitutes. They claimed to suffer from a myriad of health problems, including chronic constipation followed with debilitating diarrhea and vomiting, passing out, heart palpitations, and rashes.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">Harris said it’s cruel and unusual punishment.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">Joellen Rackleff, a Department of Corrections spokeswoman, said meals are half soy and half poultry. Serving all meat means the $47 million food budget would double.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">Currently, Florida feeds inmates three meals per day for $1.70 per inmate. Rackleff said the department should be mindful of taxpayers who pick up prisoners’ bills when making their meals and offers alternatives to soy.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">U.S. courts have said in the past that prisons have to serve nutritious meals, not pretty ones or those that comply with a prisoner’s idea of home cooking.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">Rackleff said meals meet those standards and comply with federal nutrition guidelines.</div><div style="text-align: center;">____________________ </div><br />
Every time I read one of these stories there is always one thing that just leaps off the page at me. With this story, it is the idea that a pedophile is complaining about the quality of his life sentence. <span style="font-size: large;">Hello! </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">You're a pedophile!</span> You're lucky someone hasn't killed you already....sicko. They should just let you starve. <span style="font-size: large;">Stop complaining about the food. You have sentenced kids to lives of therapy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">On top of this sick f@%k complaining about his food, we have a foundation coming to his aid. <span style="font-size: large;">A Foundation.</span> Do they know who they are supporting?? </span></span><br />
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The <a href="http://www.westonaprice.org/">Weston A. Price Foundation</a> states on its web site <i>"They're happy because they eat butter"</i> and <i>"Cod Liver Oil: Our most important superfood"</i>. No strange issues there. Apparently, the foundation and the child molester agree on one thing - eating soy is cruel and unusual punishment. So be it! Is prison supposed to be a vacation?<br />
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You really have to hand it to Florida though, feeding an inmate three squares a day on only a buck seventy. All in the interest of being responsible to its tax payers. Go Florida. Have they ever thought that it was the mystery meat and not the soy causing all the physical symptoms? <span style="font-size: large;">Eat your swill and be happy, inmates.</span> Jeez.<br />
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The judge who read the suit <span style="font-size: xx-small;">pedo-</span>filed by the inmate, surely shook his head in disgust and said, "What the Hell?"Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-89000821029609210542011-11-12T19:30:00.000-08:002011-11-13T08:59:57.533-08:00Sunday 160 - Confined<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5AZ0CUt7-0Z-bg3yiUAiFu_b7c_MzcKW84lAZ-usfMh7K5HUCY639TgIcpoxp20eKrzxt8D-T-kVuk6OMFpKCoJ8XgW6H6tsiytu_iMHYKM62lP4l_T_FkwovR4HuACRgbZrCqcvp1E-l/s1600/confined-space.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5AZ0CUt7-0Z-bg3yiUAiFu_b7c_MzcKW84lAZ-usfMh7K5HUCY639TgIcpoxp20eKrzxt8D-T-kVuk6OMFpKCoJ8XgW6H6tsiytu_iMHYKM62lP4l_T_FkwovR4HuACRgbZrCqcvp1E-l/s320/confined-space.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">In the dark, damp space </div><div style="text-align: center;">he struggled </div><div style="text-align: center;">as he twisted his body </div><div style="text-align: center;">into the only position </div><div style="text-align: center;">he felt would give him </div><div style="text-align: center;">any sort of leverage. </div><div style="text-align: center;">He hated working under the sink.</div><div style="text-align: center;">______________________________<br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you want to play along with the Sunday 160. Here are the rules. </span></div></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">1.</span> The Sunday 160 only uses <i style="color: purple;"><b>EXACTLY</b> </i>160 characters <span style="color: #660000;">(including spaces)</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">2.</span> </span>Keep on schedule - post after 8:00 PM Pacific Time on Saturday.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">3.</span> </span>Let me know you have posted via a comment on my site.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: #660000;">(Be sure to mention you have posted a 160. Provide a link if you can)</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">4.</span> Visit at least one other Sunday 160 writer.</div><div style="text-align: center;">____________________</div>Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-34769058346049392592011-11-10T17:02:00.000-08:002011-11-10T17:02:00.402-08:0055 - It's all in the name<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-z4OpQphfRO7fYnNOTiNAsl1KdCYWgu9QTW1KQKLdwWUiko0NPN2_8XLU71NJDF44cji7M9uzPfYJLMtU5psb2Gg2Hr9aAwrlsUtJPcl45OAQeV_0VLP-L4RXTfIf8xNmuUOznWPdIR4H/s1600/prune-dried-plums.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-z4OpQphfRO7fYnNOTiNAsl1KdCYWgu9QTW1KQKLdwWUiko0NPN2_8XLU71NJDF44cji7M9uzPfYJLMtU5psb2Gg2Hr9aAwrlsUtJPcl45OAQeV_0VLP-L4RXTfIf8xNmuUOznWPdIR4H/s320/prune-dried-plums.jpg" width="305" /></a></div><br />
“You know, I remember the good old days when you could go to the store and buy prunes. I loved the taste of prunes and all their leathery goodness. I miss them. What ever happened to prunes?”<br />
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“Prunes. All you ever talk about is prunes. Why don’t you shut up and eat your dried plums.”<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">This is a Flash Fiction Friday 55</div><div style="text-align: center;">hosted by Mr. Knowitall.</div><div style="text-align: center;">For more 55's pay him a visit -</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://g-man-mrknowitall.blogspot.com/">Mr. Knowitall.</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>If you think Micro Fictions are fun. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Come join me for a <a href="http://petzoldspracticalprose.blogspot.com/2009/06/sunday-160.html">Sunday 160</a>.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A challenge using exactly 160 characters </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>in a story, poem or writing of your choice.</b></span></div>Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-44408519540029601232011-11-08T17:00:00.000-08:002011-11-08T17:00:00.738-08:00What The Hell Wednesday - Coping With TeachingAs I read through potential candidates for <i>What The Hell Wednesday</i>, it is the headlines that draw me into stories. And when I see the words "School" and "DUI" in the same headline....I know I have a winner. <br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-large;">Teacher Arrested for DUI in School Parking Lot</span><br />
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<div style="color: #990000;">A Lee County teacher is accused of driving under the influence and deputies say she crashed into another car in her school's parking lot.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">Deputies say on Thursday morning, the Dunbar Middle School, school resource officer called to report a minor crash that happened in the parking lot.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">The crash involved teacher Christine Murgueytio's white Kia and another parked car.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">The SRO told deputies that Murgueytio might have been impaired because an eyewitness had said that she was stumbling and that her speech was "thick tongued."</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">When deputies arrived and spoke the teacher, she was asked if she had been drinking or taking any drugs.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">According to the arrest report, she replied that she had only taken one Ambien Wednesday night.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">When asked to take a field sobriety test, she agreed but asked to do so in the back of the parking lot so that her coworkers and students would not see it happening.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">Based on the results of those tests, she was placed in custody and asked to give a breath sample.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">And as the deputy was gathering her things from her car, according to the arrest report, he found two beer cans in her lunch box next to some uneaten plums.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">Murgueytio also agreed to give a urine sample, which was then placed into evidence.</div><div style="color: #990000;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #990000;">She was then taken to the Lee County Jail, but has since been released on bond.</div><div style="text-align: center;">___________________ </div><br />
At first glance, you might think this teacher is drunk first thing in the morning because she has to deal with junior high kids. But in reality, it's because she drives a Kia. I mean, really! Who wouldn't start chugging beers on the way to work if you had to be seen in a Kia. Isn't that just nothing more than an imitation Honda? Or Toyota?<br />
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Or maybe she drinks because she has an unpronounceable name that she has to spell all the time.<br />
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Regardless, if she'd eaten the plums no one would have noticed. For sure she would have then been more regular.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Oh.....that's prunes? I mean, dried plums? I know they no longer like to market them as prunes.</span><br />
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But she didn't eat the plums and they did notice. No doubt because she was playing bumper cars in the parking lot and staggering around <span style="font-size: x-small;"><strike>looking for more beer</strike></span> checking out the damage. Then she tries to blame her "thick tongued" speech on an Ambien she had taken. Who knew Ambien smelled like beer?<br />
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At least they had the decency to take her out by the school's smoking section to make her do the field sobriety test so the kids couldn't see. Wouldn't want to scare those innocent, impressionable little minds now would we. But that didn't stop the cops from tossing her in the back seat of a squad car and carting her off to jail.<br />
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Even as the kids were cheering from their classes, teachers were pondering "What the Hell?"Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189125011913017491.post-33541253230531076462011-11-05T19:30:00.000-07:002011-11-05T19:30:00.472-07:00Sunday 160 - Are you ready?<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Gray skies pressed down coldly overhead, </div><div style="text-align: center;">crying drizzling tears </div><div style="text-align: center;">upon hunched shoulders </div><div style="text-align: center;">and umbrella-covered heads. </div><div style="text-align: center;">It was a great day to watch college football.</div><div style="text-align: center;">______________________________<br />
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<div style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you want to play along with the Sunday 160. Here are the rules. </span></div></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">1.</span> The Sunday 160 only uses <i style="color: purple;"><b>EXACTLY</b> </i>160 characters <span style="color: #660000;">(including spaces)</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">2.</span> </span>Keep on schedule - post after 8:00 PM Pacific Time on Saturday.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">3.</span> </span>Let me know you have posted via a comment on my site.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: #660000;">(Be sure to mention you have posted a 160. Provide a link if you can)</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">4.</span> Visit at least one other Sunday 160 writer.</div><div style="text-align: center;">____________________</div>Monkey Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06741294113777908130noreply@blogger.com21