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Thread #59418 Message #1873880
Posted By: Rapparee
01-Nov-06 - 11:30 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
That's the one. When Bill found that he'd been cheated out of thousands in royalties he took to drinking and gradually slid downhill from Chateau-Neuf-du-Pape to Wild Irish Rose to Ripple to Boone's Farm. Finally he fell off the rods in the Pocatello railyards and stumbled to the Legion Hovel, mistaking it for a hobo camp, albeit a truly low-class hobo camp. After cadging a few bottles of Stompin' Red (a local wine of extremely low moral character) it was discovered that he couldn't pay for them, pity was taken by the Legion Vice Commander, and Bill was given the job of cleaning cuspidors and teaching Theoretical Quark Mechanics at the University (where his personal hygience, dress, and other habits are written off as 'just another professor').
He has a warm bed in the basement of the Hovel, all the beef 'n' beans he wants, a gallon of red a day, and two part-time jobs that are, he says, in many ways very similar.
Bill's doing okay, for him.