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Loon: I’m especially looking forward to this episode of The 3 Question Interview because our celebrity ghost today is someone I have actually heard of, Professor Edgar Allan Poe. Your honor, can you tell us about any experiences you might have had on any random train journey?
Poe’s ghost: No.
Loon: In that case, where did you get those shoes?
Poe’s ghost: From a dear friend just before and after he passed away.
Loon: It seems your vest is blood soaked. Is it?
Poe’s ghost: Yes.
Loon: Well, have to be going now. Bye.
(Loon exits rapidly. Poe walks off slowly, head bowed, frowning, as if in mourning.)
It’s simply impossible for anyone to ever be as cool as Satchel Paige.
When Peggy Ashcroft performed as the greatest Juliet of the 20th century opposite John Gielgud’s Romeo, before every performance she would:
a. meditate for an hour with her pet raven perched on her shoulder.
b. gain the focus she needed by weaving feathers into a replica of the Queen.
c. stare for ten minutes at a portrait of Rudyard Kipling.
d. have to be coaxed out from hiding in the laundry room.
Tim knew better than to confront Charles directly. Acting with this knowledge in mind, he purchased a helicopter, a false nose, and a swollen inflated plastic rabbit. After taking a slew of flying lessons and qualifying as a helicopter pilot, he nudged his little plan into motion. First, he flew in his helicopter with rabbit and nose to a clearing in the woods a scant half mile from the farmhouse where Charles always holed up to develop his most heinous plans. Nose taped in place and dragging the swollen plastic rabbit by an ear, Tim crept to hide behind the fence within grenade lobbing distance of the farmhouse door. Whenever Charles emerged, and emerge he must, Tim would instantly bring rabbit and nose into play. Unfortunately, Charles had sold the farm two weeks earlier and moved to Scotland, never more to be seen. So whatever Tim had in mind for nose and swollen inflated plastic rabbit never was revealed. When Tim died 74 years later, the nose and plastic deflated rabbit were buried with him.
childish behavior is to be expected from children
experts agree
from a president-elect of the united states?
looming catastrophe
Loon: On this new year’s day edition of the 3 Question Interview With A Celebrity Ghost, the Lords of the 4th Dimension have seen fit to deliver to us one Stephen Foster, a man I have never heard of, but who I am told wrote tunes. Mr. Foster, how often were you able to go ice skating?
Foster’s ghost: Not as often as I desired.
Loon: Too bad. It’s a lot of fun. I went yesterday. Second question. If you could live on the moon, would you?
Foster’s ghost: When I was alive, I never considered it. Now being dead, I do, as a matter of fact, live on the moon.
Loon: Final question. When you were alive, did you get enough roughage in your diet?
Foster’s ghost: I’m not altogether sure.
Loon: Thank you and good-bye. (Foster fades along with the piano and banjo he brought along. Loon goes to table, retrieves half consumed Snickers bar, consumes it.)
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