Posted by Billygnome on June 04, 2001 at 13:31:22:
In Reply to: Re: The Way We Do Things In Florida.... posted by Guard Gator on June 04, 2001 at 11:23:03:
Beauty sleep? Well sleep long for many years pal! You need it!
I've never seen an UGLIER gecko!!
Sic him Mick!!! He'll make great boots, belt and hatband fer ya!
Billygnome
: : : *rummmmble, growl, ruuuuuuuuuumble*
: : : "Guard duty! Damn, damn! How's come *I* pull Guard Duty more'n any other gator around this place?? I ain't studyin' no more steenking GUARD DUTY!!! I'll just take a little nappie in the nice, hot sun here on MMMMarcia's front lawn.....snorrrrfle....HUH? What's that you say? Miss Katie's comin' again? Wellllll, THAT'S a snack of a different color!!! Why didn'tcha say so in the first place? I'll be HAAAAPY to keep an eye out for Miss Katie! Yes, indeed, *smack, smack*! It will be simply...ruuumble...DELICIOUS to see her again!"
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: : : *smallprint: Picture taken by Miss Katie O'Arbroath last summer, just prior to G2K*
: : *Small little man in red pointy hat walks through tall grass. Stops at long lizardy thingie and raps on his wrinkled leathern skull as if knocking on a door* "Hey, wake up you slothful dingus with the long teeth! Guard all you want, but so much as lay a paw on our sweet Katie and you'll have GNOMES all over your butt! And if WE don't intimidate you, then you best think about our FRIEND over there!" *pointing to a grinning Crocodile Dundee running his sharpening steel along the edge of his loooonnnnngggg knife*
: : Billygnome
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: Lizardy thingie? LIZARDY THINGIE??? Excuuuuuuuse me, you little bitesized tidbit, but I'll have you know...ruuuuumble.... that the word "alligator" is a corruption of the Spanish phrase, El Ligarto, meaning....ruuuuuuummbly rumble...THE Lizard. THE Lizard!! Get it? As in "no other reptile even comes close!" In keeping with THAT thought, I have to tell you...ruuuuumble... that I ain't afraida NO STEENKING PUNY TEENSY LITTLE SQUIRTS IN POINTY RED HATS!! And as for that feller over there with the knife...ha!! I scoff at that!!! I have a WHOLE MOUTH FULL OF SHARP POINTY IMPLEMENTS with which to...ruuuuuuuumble...take his arm off, knife and all!! And if that don't scare him, well let me introduce you to my brother....ruuuuuuuublerumble rumble...BIG AL! Big Al eats BOATLOADS of tourists for breakfast most every day, outboard motors an' all! Why he'd scarf you up and use yer pointy red hat to pick his teeth!! Now go 'way, Little Man! Yer disturbin' my beauty sleep!!!
: *snnnoooooooorfle*