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Friday, August 11, 2006

How You Can Become Popular Like Me!

Photobucket - Video and Image HostingI've told you this before, but let me say it again. I'm a miserable bastard. I'm so nasty I don't even get along with myself. About ninety per cent of my colleagues at the courthouse stopped talking to me years ago, and I think my daughter has disowned me. She doesn't even call me "Dad" anymore. It's, "How are you, father?"

Even animals hate me. I once offered an apple to a horse, and the damn thing attacked me. Another time, during a long run through the country, a frickin' herd of cows took off after me. Man, are they fast! Somebody told me that prey animals fear me because I'm pretty hairy and they think I'm a wolfman or something. I think there's something to that because dogs are the only animals who like me. But they're pretty stupid. They chase their tails, drink water out of a toilet bowl, eat crap, and lick me.

Now, thanks to Bloggernaut, I've found a way to fool people into thinking I'm quite the guy. It's the popularity dialer! You plug your cell phone into a website called the popularity dialer, set a date and time, and your phone will ring while you're in a crowd so you can pretend to have conversations with people who just adore you. Or, if you have to be somewhere you don't want to be, you can plug in a call from your "boss" telling you that you need to get back to the office at once.

Pretty cool, huh?

I got onto the popularity dialer. Instead of plugging in my cell, I typed the cellphone numbers of what few friends I have left, and started sending away. One of my pals was at home, and his wife got to hear some babe begging him to go out. Another of my friends got all five preset messages in the span of about ten minutes, and was going beserk. I did this to about seven hundred people.

For some reason, the popularity dialer has had the reverse effect for me. Now, pretty near one hundred percent of the people I know have stopped talking to me. Even the dogs are growling at me.

But I'm sure that's temporary, and we'll all be laughing about it on Monday.

I wonder what those red lights and sirens are doing outside my place. I better put some clothes on. See 'ya Monday or in thirty days.

9 comments:

  1. I keep warning people that cell phones are dangerous.

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  2. Mr. O'Hare has been taken away for an evaluation by mental health authorities to determine whether he is harmful to himself or others. After his 48 hour review hearing, we may let him out. But he will be heavily sedated, and his response to your comment may be incoherent.

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  3. LVDem & Mad Batter, Once the electro-shock therapy is complete, we'll let O'Hare go.

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  4. DemFly, That's not a bad idea. I'll teach that bastard to make fun of my cousin.

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  5. DemFlyonthewall, You're next, sister.

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  6. I'd get your husband, too, but he likes that sort of thing.

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  7. No, but I hear Sexy Sylvia is giving him the sponge bath.

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  8. I'll release O'Hare in exchange for Sexy Sylvia and a pump.

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