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- From: caz@owlnet.rice.edu (HWRNMNBSOL)
- Subject: Re: Rictus Hep, P.I. (Continue Or Die)
- Message-ID: <C0IxuA.508@rice.edu>
- Sender: caz@owlnet.rice.edu (James Ulysses Cazamias)
- Organization: Rice University
- References: <C0D9rA.L8v@rice.edu> <C0DvCD.100@phage.cshl.org>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 07:22:57 GMT
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- In article <C0DvCD.100@phage.cshl.org>, boutell@isis.cshl.org (Tom Boutell) writes:
- |> In article <C0D9rA.L8v@rice.edu> caz@owlnet.rice.edu (HWRNMNBSOL) writes:
- |> >I was just settling down for a little nap, having burrowed deep into the
- |> >cool mud at the banks of Lake Victoria, when SHE walked in.......
- |> >HWRNMNBSOL
- |>
- |> She had hair like Jeannie Shrimpton back in 1969, she had legs that
- |> never ended, I was halfway paralyzed.
- |>
- |> I shut off the stereo and looked at her. A short stubbly mustachioed
- |> grandmother with a piece at her side and a set of crooked black teeth
- |> to take care of anything that got past it.
- |>
- |> "What brings you to me, ma'am?"
- |>
- |> "A cab." She took a seat, took out her gun and began wiping it with
- |> my Kleenex. "My daughter's missing. I need your help."
- |>
- |> I showed her the surgical scars.
-
- "Never mind," she said. "You need my help." She descended on me with the
- garden shears....
-
- Much later, we were smoking smokeless tobacco in one of my favorite dives,
- The Greasy Fist. The bartender's a friend, who told two friends, and they
- told two friends, and so on, and so on.......I looked at her over my shot
- of Clearasil and gave her a little toast: "To you, Granny." Her frown
- told me I had been fresh, but the teeth were speaking the language of
- love. It took me fifteen minutes to shut them up and get them to talk
- about this missing daughter.
-
- "Well, she's five -- that's thirty-five to you and me -- she has big
- floppy ears, a wet nose, and she's been spayed."
-
- I lit up another Skoal. "Doesn't sound like any daughter I've ever heard
- of. Sure she's not some kind of house pet?"
-
- Her hairy upper lip quivered, and she burst into tears, requiring a full
- roll of paper towels to wipe up. "I haven't been honest with you, Rictus:
- my dog's gone missing, and I didn't know who to turn to! Oh, you're too
- much the detective to be fooled by me!"
-
- I was miffed. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a client who won't
- tell you all the facts. Besides, I had been thinking 'cat'.
- --
- HWRNMNBSOL
-