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“That’s why we have second-degree murder, the unpremeditated variety. For people who are too lazy to plan ahead.”
If she kept up at this rate, pretty soon she wouldn’t have a vice left in the world and no idea how she got so pure.
Anyway, what makes this new Rams player different is that she’s not only a Toon, she’s also a female, the first woman to break into the pros. A lot of sportswriters dismiss it as nothing but a desperate gimmick on the part of a bottom-division team, but I don’t know. I don’t see how you can call anybody a gimmick who’s eight feet tall, three hundred pounds, and can lift the back end of a car with her toes.
Oh, yeah. The Rams won fourteen to twelve, they awarded the game ball to Priscilla Gorilla, and a million guys on a million bar stools mourned another fallen tradition.
A short dose of him, and I began to understand why guys go off and live on mountaintops.
He made my money vanish with a skill that would have impressed Mandrake the Magician and gave me a duplicate of the long, hard going-over I get from patrol cops when they catch me hanging around a decent neighborhood at an indecent hour.
The way the cops treated him, you might have thought he really was a cop instead of an actor playing a cop. A guy like Tracy could probably get elected chief of police on the basis of his dashing reflection in the fun-house mirror. In the comic business they call that the power of make believe. In our nation’s capital, they call it politics.
He walloped the candy dispenser, but it refused to knuckle under to management pressure. Must have had a stronger union than the coffee machine.
The rabbit nodded bravely. If you didn’t count the garbage can he tipped over on the way, you could say he slipped silently out the backdoor.
