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Good choice, DaI! 
talking of dai, allow a brief digression, Fong? This seemed a good context to bring to the multitudinous attention a fun thing from the Beeb:
The competition is: write a happy ending in EXACTLY one hundred words (no more, no less!) including the following seven words selected by Alexander McCall-Smith:
wistful, moon, better, unlikely, happily, ever, after.
and so back to the game, where the scores are tied in the...
Hey Maverick, I'm trying. Just 37 more words to shave before the deadline. 
... it was not for riches that Leon Bottoms souped up his bass boat and begun running guns to rebels in Belize. Leon wasn't thought to be a prize by the ladies and he needed the loot to encourage women to be picked up.
Then Katrina, one-hell-of-a-woman, picked up Leon, guns, and bass boat, and deposited them upside down on an upside down coral reef.
Strange island. The scrub plants there grew berries on the bottom and roots on the top. Leon ate the hippie-looking berries and grew fat.
Then one day a mermaid walked by. She was ugly. Unlike regular mermaids she was human on the bottom and fish on the top. Ugh, decided Leon, I could never kiss a woman who looks like a sea bass!
Leon watched wistfully as the unlikely mermaid frolicked in the shallow bay, diving sea-bass-top first until only her slim waist and curvaceous hips and the wonderful moon of her bottom, and her long sun-tanned shapely legs, were visible above water.
Leon jumped in.
Men have met better fates,and of course, after a time Leon died and went to his fate in the great hereafter -- happily.
Last edited by themilum; 03/16/06 07:09 PM.
