??tp-e?="re?h" content="?rl=http://sn?tumor.bl?ot.com/2007_08_0???ml" /> ?���ky T?���?���?��� 200?���itle> <styl?���pe="?���?���" media=?���een"> ?���border-bottom:dotted?��� #000000?���gin-?���om:0?��� h2 {margin-bottom?���;} h2#arch?���?���addi?���op:10px;marg?���op:40px;bord?���op:dotte?���x #999999;} h3 {padding-top:30px;c?���:#555555;padding?���tom:0px;margin-botto?���x;} bo?���?���-family:?���gia,Serif;fo?���ize:1em;margin:3%;paddin?���x;ba?���ound:#ffffff;color:#0000?��� div.blogPost {padding-left:5%;pad-right:1?��� div.byline {c?���:#555555;} p#blogg?���?���addi?���op:20px;} .blogCom?���?���addi?���op:30px;color:#555555;padding-bottom?���?���gin-?���om:0px;font-weight:b?��� .blogComm?���?���line {fo?���ize:1em;?���-weight:normal;c?���:#555555?���gin-right:10px;display:inline} .blogComment {font-size:1em?���gin:3%;c?���:#000000;font-we?���?���?��� .deleted-comment {font-styl?���alic;color:gray;} #blogf?���?��� #postfeeds { } .paging-?���rol-?���ainer { float: right; margin?���?���?���?���x; font-size: 80%; } .unneeded-paging-?���rol { visibility: hidden; ?���le> ?���?���?���pe="?���?���?���ipt"?���nction()?���ar a=window;function c(b){th?���={};?���.tic?���nction(d,i,e){e=e?e:?���?���e).getTime();this.t[d]=[e,i]};th?���ick("start",null?���var f=new c;?���timi?���Timer:c,load:f};?���var ?���ll;if(a.chrome&&a.chrome.csi)g=Math.floor(a.chrome.csi().pageT);if(g?���ll)if(a.gtbE?���nal)g=a.?���nal.pageT();if(g?���ll)if(a.external)g=a?���ernal.pageT;if(g)a.jstiming.pt=g?���ch(h){};a.tickAboveFold=function?���b=b;var d=0;if(b.offsetParent){do d+=b.offse?���;while(b=b.offse?���ent)}b=d;b<=750&&a.jstiming.load.tick("aft")};var j=?���?���nction k(){if(!j){j=true;a.jstiming.load.tic?���ScrollTime")}}a.addE?���?���?���?a.a?���entListener(?���oll",k,false):a.atta?���ent(?���croll",k); })()?���?���t><meta ?���?���iv="?���ent-Type" conten?���ext/html; charset=UTF-8" /> ?���a name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true" /> <meta name="gen?���or" ?���ent="Blo?���" /> <li?���el="icon?���pe="image/vnd.mi?���oft.?���ef="?���?���ww.blogger.com/favicon.ico"/> <link rel=?���ernate" type?���plicatio?���?���ml" title="Snark?���mor ?���om" href?���tp://snarky.tumo?���b-ab?���.com/atom.xml" /> <link rel=?���ernate" type?���plicatio?���s+xm?���itle="Sn?��� Tumor - RSS?���ef="?���?���nark?���mor.usb-abacus.c?���?���ml" /> <link rel="service.post" type?���atio?���?���ml" title="Snark?���mor ?���om" href?���tp:/?���.blo?���.com/feeds/51310623995325731?���?���/def?���" /> <li?���el="?���URI"?���e="applicati?���?���ml" title="RSD" href?���tp:/?���.blo?���.com/rsd.g?blogID=5131062399532573109" /> <link rel?���?���?���?���pe="?���?���?���ef="?���?���ww.blogger.c?���tatic/v1/v-css/50269083-blog_control?���s"/>?���el="stylesheet" type="text/css" href?���tp:/?���.blo?���.com/dyn?���?���horization.c?���argetBlogID=5131062399532573109&zx=b7d18f2b-a8e1-46d2-a611-bd4d1edf53a3"/> </head> <body> <!-- To aid with the Blo?���?���Bar --> ?��� id="wrap4"> <!-- Header --> <h1>Sn?��� Tumor</h1> <!-- Blog Posts <h3>Sunday, August 26, 2007</h3> <a name="3856594151545293373">&?���;</a> <h2> walking into a?���</h2> <div class="blo?���t"> <d?���tyle="clear:both;"><?���>"So what did yo?���ease up the ?���-n-Slide?���h?" Bill?���ked.<br /><br />Lin ?���. "Just water. See, ?��� hooked ?���o the hose."<br /><br />?���er?" Billy gaped at Lin, inc?���?���. "That's all? What kind of ?���y activity i?���pan style="font-style: italic;">?���?���an>??��� /><br />Lin?���ckled and shrugged. Anna, to?��� left, laughed.<br /?��� />"?���?��� need to do," Billy said, "Is gothe ?���e and get si?���?���en conta?���s of Crisco. Then you come back here?���t the whole thing in?���ix-gallo?���?���ot, and put it on th?���ove at a hundred deg?���?���'ll all be melted down a?��� a half-?���."<br /><br />"Why just ?���ndred degrees?" Alan?���?���pted. "We could jack it ?���o three hundred,?��� it ?���ter.?��� /><br />Billy looked skeptical. "Um. Un?���?���'re a Mongolian warlord, playing?���h boiling oil re?��� isn?���he best idea?���?���?��� game." Then he looked g?���y, and continued, "U?���s yo?���pan style="font-style: italic;">are</span> a Mongoli?���arlord. Oh, my God, I totally di?��� mean to offyou, I just didn?���hink Mongoli?���arlords were?���ty f?���?���t I ?���ld have ?���n be?���?���'s n?���hat I have anything against Mongolian wa?���ds, or anything--in ?���, some o?���?���?���iend?���e Mongolian warl?���." Then ?���ause?���ook ?���eath, an?���ked,?���pan style="font-style: italic;">Are</spa?���ou a Mongoli?���arlord?"<br /><br />Alan looked ?���?���ed. "Uh, no.?���?���e Mongolian warlord friends, huh?"<br /><br />Billy cleared his throat. "Uh,?���t of. Not so much an?���e." ?���ighed.<br /><br />"Oh?" said Anna, amused. "?���?���pened?"<br /?��� />"Well?���aid Bill?���eluc?���ly. ?���'s just say ?���?��� should be grateful ?��� I'm?��� and?��� inclined to take any of my ?���hes off.?��� /><br />"Whoo," said Alan. ?��� I'm?���?���ted. Go on."<br /><br />"Ah, it'?���?���hat I wa?���?��� goo?���iends with a Mongoli?���arlord." Billy c?���ed h?���hroat again.?��� least, until I ?���t with h?���ister."<br /?��� />"?��� shit," Lin said gleefully. "What'd he do?"<br /?��� />"Well, he?���tured me?���?���ee days stra?���?���t ho?���ly...I c?���?���stand where ?���as comin?���om, you ?���?"<br /><br />"J?���, th?���?���rible," said Anna.<br /><br />Billy ?���gged. "Not as horrible as what he did to?���?���ter for cheating on him.?��� /><br />The?���ire room groaned in delighted di?���t. "My God," saian. "Where d?���ou meet ?���?���?"<br /><br />Billy nodd?���lowly. "Yeah, I met him in a?���. I was ?���ing ?���he c?���?���hen ?���alked in?���h a priest, a rabbi, and an eight-fo?���all duck."<br /><br />The room e?���ed i?���?��� and?���d la?���er. Bill?���ood up and bowed. "Now..?���?���?���st heard the?���?���alk-in-a?���' joke of alme. Am I right?" He smiled myste?���sly, and the room filled?���?���?���se.<div style="c?���?���?���adding-bottom:0.25em"></div><br /> <div class="byline"?���ted by Hugh VanDerGoetz&?���; # <a href?���tp://snarky.tumo?���b-ab?���.com/2007/08/walking?���o-bar.ph?���itle="permanent link">10:50 AM</a> <a href=?���ps:/?���.blo?���.com/com?���.g?blogID=5131062399532573109&postID=3856594151545293373"locatio?���ef=h?���?���ww.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5131062399532573109&?���ID=3856594151545293373;><spa?���yle=?���?���ansform:lowe?���e">0 Com?���?���pan></a>?���pan ?���s="item-?���rol blog-adm?���id-1556466247"><?���yle=?���der:none;" href=?���p://www.blogger.com/?���-edit.g?blogID=51310623995325731?���ostID=385659415154529337?���itle="Edit Post"><img class="icon-action" alt="" src?���tp:/?���.blo?���.com:80/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" height="18" ?���h="18"></a></span> <?���> </div> <h3>Mo?���?���?��� 20, 2007</h3> <a name="1117923598296177364">?���p;</a> <h2> N?���ou d?���</h2> <div class="blo?���t"> <d?���tyle="clear:both;"><?���>Ric Campbell was sitting in?��� age?��� office when he walked in.<br /><br ?���?���?���y odd to be ?���ing at himself, and ?���?���stood, br than a?���ror could have ever told him, why there was such a f?���?���er him. God. Pretty.<br /><br />"Whoa. What the hell?" he said.<br /?��� />The lamp on his a?���'s minim?���t de?���uddenly brightened and dimmed, and anoth?���erson wa?���anding i?���ont of h?���here?���?���