Friday, April 03, 2009

Gooood morning, Knoxville!

I got into town yesterday about 4:30.

Boy, the drive south was like driving four weeks (and 20 degrees Fahrenheit) into the future. Back in Indy, the trees have just started getting the faintest fuzz of green buds on their branches, but dropping down into the valley here was a treat for the eyes.


The only thing of note on the otherwise uneventful drive was the odd roadkill I spotted (or hallucinated) on the shoulder of I-275 just before crossing the Ohio river; either y'all have some weird, spotted, shaggy, long-necked deer up there, or somebody's missing their llama.

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  1. I am missing my llama ......

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  2. Considering the amount of llama ranches scattered around the state, that wouldn't surprise me.

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  3. Did it have wings? Maybe it was an ostrich.

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  4. That drive reminds of driving south from Kansas to Tulsa for the spring gun shows. The pear trees bloom out nearly a month earlier down there. They can plant butter beans in February. Not here.

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  5. Damn, you passed up llama roadkill? Elitist.

    Them's good eatin if you fix em right.

    You could have at least pulled over and sheared it.

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  6. Could it have been a unicorn? I still haven't gotten my unicorn. I'm thinking my unicorn fell off the mail truck and got busted up on the highway. That has to be what happened. Who do I write to for a replacement uni?

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  7. Llama = poor man's Elk.

    You don't need a tag ...

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  8. Llama steaks and you passed it up? Well, actually don't blame you on that one... :-)

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  9. Glad you've arrived safely.

    You KNOW I have to add this now.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbPDKHXWlLQ

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  10. Anon 4:14, llamas are not mailable--they exceed both the max weight and the height/girth regulation. Delivery has been held up until a sufficient Secret Youth Army can be drafted to lead them to you. That's why The One has been so secretive about why he needs his own personal army. It's a surprise.

    The unicorns will come with a gold-chased halter, which, ironically, fits you just as well as it fits the unicorn. Efficiency.

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  11. I hear that unicorns become extremely ornery when handled by non-virgins, so I don't expect O's youth army to have much luck delivering them.

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  12. I thought it was spelled Eunuch Horn. There's sure to be phthalates in that horn.

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  13. I don't know about llamas, but if you ever get offered/threatened with the chance to ride an alpaca, think of it as a camel with shag upholstery...

    Jim

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