Thu, 07 Jun 2001
Once upon a time, there was a little sunflower, who grew in a field full
of sunflowers in a field not so far from the very village where you grew
up. A picturesque little place, on the slope of a gentle mountain,
which nurtured all who lived there, and sheltered them from the raging
barbarian hordes constantly fighting for supremacy on the other side.
But then you know about where you grew up.
One day, this sunflower was sunning itself, and listening to the nearby
clang of swinging broadswords, when it realized that it never really
enjoyed this life of idyllic bliss. What it really craved was
adventure!
And so the little sunflower packed up its things and prepared to go off
into the great wide world, when it suddenly remembered about all the
friends it had made here, and how it would probably have to find someone
to feed its cat. It was at that point that the sunflower realized that
without knowing it, it had somehow managed to put down roots here, and
that it didn't want to leave after all.
Happy at this newfound realization, the sunflower failed to notice the
harvesting combine approach and slice it neatly in twain.
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Once upon a time, there was a little jedi knight. He learned all about
the force, and how it acted upon all things to an extent governed by an
object's mass and how quickly that object accelerated.
One day, the little jedi knight wanted to better understand the universe
in which he lived. He decided to go back to school and study advanced
particle physics. He studied very hard, and eventually became a jedi
master. Still questing for more, he went back to school and became a
jedi Ph.D.
Now fully equipped to deal with the mysteries of the universe, the
little jedi got a job doing what all jedi knights with a Ph.D. in
advanced particle physics do; he went to work in a particle
accelerator.
Sadly, the fact that this particle accelerator was based on giant space
station that roamed the galaxy and destroyed planets escaped the little
jedi's attention until it was stormed by rebel troops who shot him until
he became more powerful than they could possibly imagine.
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