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<a href='http://au.ozyandmillie.net/2005/om20050930.html' target='_blank'>http://au.ozyandmillie.net/2005/om20050 ... ><br><br>I think Millie has finally reached a level of weird unattainable by most mortals with a tiny iota of sanity left.

*avoids the hippo*

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Makes me think of sentences written to demonstrate semantics by its absence, like "The abstract sheep wore beauteous arguments" or the impeccable "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously." I can hardly wait to see where this goes.

Well, remember that when someone is "dark and stormy", it usually means they are in a bad mood. So what we had, I guess, was a foul-tempered hippo-shaped baloon that is prone to falling asleep at random moments. <!--emo&:unsure:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... unsure.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='unsure.gif' /><!--endemo-->

<!--QuoteBegin-Richard K Niner+Sep 30 2005, 09:14 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Richard K Niner @ Sep 30 2005, 09:14 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> *avoids the hippo* <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> No, you're thinking of "avoid the meadow." Because of the cow.

That's what you think! <!--emo&:mischief:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... schief.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mischief.gif' /><!--endemo-->

<!--QuoteBegin-Richard K Niner+Sep 30 2005, 01:01 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Richard K Niner @ Sep 30 2005, 01:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> That's what you think! <!--emo&:mischief:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... schief.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mischief.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> <!--emo&--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... ns/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo--> There <b>will</b> be a Chosen One! And it will be significant!

"Inflatable narcoleptic hippo"<br><br>Now I wonder how that ties in with a grand view of American culture and society.

One free kudo, to the first person that can name the book that "It was a dark and stormy night" came from .... preferbily without googling

Why Google when you can hootoo?<br><br><!--QuoteBegin-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton in the novel Paul Clifford+ 1830--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton in the novel Paul Clifford @ 1830)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br> <br><br>

"It was a dark and stormy night."<br><br>First line of <i>A Wrinkle In Time</i> by Madeline L'Engle copyright 1962.

<!--QuoteBegin-Bocaj Claw+Sep 30 2005, 08:20 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Bocaj Claw @ Sep 30 2005, 08:20 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Why Google when you can hootoo?<br><br><!--QuoteBegin-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton in the novel Paul Clifford+ 1830--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton in the novel Paul Clifford @ 1830)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Kudoes to you ...now what is Hootoo ?

<!--QuoteBegin-rogue-kun+Sep 30 2005, 09:28 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (rogue-kun @ Sep 30 2005, 09:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Kudoes to you ...now what is Hootoo ? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> <a href='http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/' target='_blank'>Hootoo</a> is the abbreviation for h2g2.com<br><br>Which is a site that Douglas Adams sorta started.

Maybe the hippo balloon represents a country with an inflated ego prone to be asleep at matters that are most imprtant (basically ignores important details or something), and "it was a dark and stormy" represents how a country fights for the wrong ideals zealously... i.e the United States... Or it could just be Millies randomness <!--emo&:P--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /><!--endemo--> .