[3353] in Humor
HUMOR: A little Halloween humor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sharalee M. Field)
Mon Oct 30 14:11:44 2000
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:07:12 -0500
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From: "Sharalee M. Field" <sharalee_field@harvard.edu>
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>Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:44:55 -0500
>To: Catherine L Cezeaux <cezeaux@fas.harvard.edu>, sharalee_field@harvard.edu
>From: Maryellen Fitzgibbon <mfitzgib@fas.harvard.edu>
>Subject: Fwd: A little Halloween humor
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>This is a little corny but....
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: EOG521@aol.com [mailto:EOG521@aol.com]
>>Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 10:42 AM
>>To: NEPCKids@aol.com
>>Subject: (no subject)
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>>Subject: Halloween Story-a real groaner, sorry.......
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>>A man was walking home alone late one night when he
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>>BUMP... behind him.
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>>Walking faster he looks back, and makes out the image of an upright
>>coffin banging its way down the middle of the street towards him.
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>>BUMP...
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>>Terrified, the man begins to run towards his home, the coffin bouncing
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>>Faster...
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>>Faster...
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>>BUMP....
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>>BUMP.
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>>He runs up to his door, fumbles with his keys, opens the door,
>>rushes in, slams and locks the door behind him.
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>>However, the coffin crashes through his
>>door, with the lid of the coffin clapping ...
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>>clappity-BUMP...
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>>on the heels of the terrified man.... .
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>>Rushing upstairs to the bathroom,
>>the man locks himself in. His heart is
>>pounding; his head is reeling; his breath is coming
>>in sobbing gasps.
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>>With a loud CRASH the coffin breaks down the door and
>>comes Bumping and clapping towards him.
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>>The man screams and reaches for
>>something heavy, anything ...
>>his hand comes to rest on a large bottle of Robitussin.
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>>Desperate, he throws the Robitussin as
>>hard as he can at the apparition.
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>>The coffin stops.
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