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In the interest of science, Rudy has continued to eat every meal in the same way, from the same bowl, since 1972. Rudy also continues to be single.

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During the big child care strike of '63, the professional stroller pushers chose not to walk out.

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Maya never did know why her father cursed and spat whenever the price of Fantastic Four #48 increased. It had always been his dream to send his daughter up to be the first surfer in space.

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Having eaten the keys to the station wagon, the tortoise made a valiant run for it.

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Sinclair, in the red shirt, age four, discovered the meaning of life in the mouth of a scorpion. His family, in search of a power centre that would give them the best possible prices on straw hats and clogs, declared this spot to be simply "too warm". Sinclair forgot the scorpion until he was sixteen, as the 1970s was coming to a close, and created an underground cult that seeks, to this day, to find this fateful hotspot.

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Not only did they all mysteriously survive the crash when no adults did, but they flourished... that is, until the gloves came off and little Trudy revealed the birthmark that proved her to be the rightful queen of Latvia.

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See posting 339 for further information about my new slide restoration project.

No one was as surprised as Agnes.

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The other day I bought a couple of hundred slides from a garage/house sale. They were not well labeled, so in the interest of history, I will present a selection of them here with facts that should be self evident. If anyone has additional information about these images, it would be a great boon to mankind if you came forth to further clarify the origin of the images.


Kal-El's ship was not a rocket but a space craft powered by a combination of a solar sail and pedaling by an in-house cabana boy.