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Fishing
Laurie Simpson
An angler who shall be nameless was plagued by a prolonged dry spell,
when no fish would come to his lure, fly, or bait. Not even to Barney
Steele's "Wooly Bugger"!
He had a friend named Bill, a dedicated and successful fisherman, and so
he went to Bill, and asked him for help. The successful one replied that
he had contacted a Neo-Witch, Deodorah of the Aridh Clan, who had worked
out spells on her computer, cast them for him, and now he caught fish
whenever he wished.
Our anonymous angler sent an email to Deodorah, and she asked the name of
his dog, which always accompanied him in the boat. She wrote and cast a
spell for trolling; if he trolled in the direction the dog looked, he
would catch fish.
For two days he trolled, without even a twitch on the line. Angrily, he
wrote to the witch, "Your spell is useless!!'
Deodorah programmed and cast a new spell to empower his boat, so that
fish would be irresistibly attracted to any form of bait used from the
boat.
Three days later, "Not a nibble!!!"
So Deodorah wrote an all-powerful spell, in WitchBasic, with exotic
ingredients from quantum science, limnology, and astrology, and cast it
on all the waters which the angler had fished, did fish, and might fish!
And, "NO FISH!!#!"
And Deodorah consulted her black cat, for she was wise in the traditional
ways, as well as modern. And the cat gave strong indications that she
should consult a Programming Wizard.
And Deodorah called up a consultation with the Wizard on World Wide Web
for Witches. And the Wizard accessed Deo's computer, and read the spells
she had written, and studied her style, and cast the runes and boiled an
antique newt, for he was also an old-fashioned Wizard.
And then he sent her an urgent e-mail,
"Have you switched on your Spell-checker?"??
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