h a l f b a k e r yBaker Street Irregulars
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"I was in a bar opposite the guy's place, on the kind of stake-out that people just don't do any more - the kind that leave you with a head that feels like an old football and wanting to sleep for a week. Just my luck, it was the kind of lousy bar you always get in this job - cheap booze and cheap dames.
The Carle guy was in his apartment and now I was just waiting - waiting and getting drunk. I never forgave him for the biography he wrote on me - he had more material than a guy would need in a lifetime of writing and he spent the whole book on my eating disorders..."
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....and then I turned into a McDolnalds and had everything on the menu twice. |
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Do you get a stuffed toy with this book as well? |
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"Two weeks in and I was starting to pupate.
Luckily Nick the Greek had a sideline going in silk -
he'd reel it off me and pick up my bar tab." |
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"Bartender brings over a bowl of peanuts. I nearly spill them as the door crashes open and in walks the most bad-tempered ladybird I have ever seen. Starts picking on a group of aphids playing cards in a booth but moves on, he's looking for the big fight tonight." |
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(Very odd coincidence - this idea came to me late last night and I posted it this morning. Then I saw Google had a Eric Carle-themed home page today. I think it's the 40th anniversary of the publication of VHC). |
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Crack Moth - a (sort of) antithesis of the very hungry caterpillar - the thought just came to me but it is just nasty. |
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One million points to hippo! |
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I thought it was 'crack spider'. |
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"In the morning I ate a green leaf, and felt much better." |
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Dear god, I haven't been here in years, and what
do I come back to see? |
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I could barely stand on my own 30 legs. |
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Yeah, methinks that I should come back here more
often! |
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Sounds like it's not just the book that's gonna be full of holes before this tale is done. |
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You and me both, oh Arid Vulpus compadre. |
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And a cup cake, two ice cream sundaes, a hot dog, a salami.... |
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"I was trying to workup the courage to go over. But I just couldn't. I needed food.
I ordered some toast and was just starting to spread when the ladybird appeared and threw my plate in the air.
There was dairy fat everywhere.
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"Ha", he says "Now we'll see who can make the butter fly..." |
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