I Am Mr. Plecostamus

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I Am Mr. Plecostamus

Post by billectric » January 17th, 2005, 12:20 am

It's voice was high but smooth
Like the tubular muted pitch
Your get blowing into a bottle or jug.
It said, "I am Mister Plecostamus!
"I have painted the oranges blue
"And filled the washing machine with baloooons!"

And Mister Plecostamus laughed
With a giggle and a snort,
Fish eyes twinkled, looking eye to eye
With Jamie, for he was just that tall.
Wriggled out of the aquarium wearing a top hat, he did.
Jamie shivered.

The long, black mustachio-whiskers, slick,

"I am Mister Plecostamus!
"I dallied in the grass
"And ran a fishing line around your Bicycle!"

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Post by judih » January 17th, 2005, 4:24 am

bill,
your biology is showing
the world is expanding into platelets and amoebic exclusives

someone's slipped a microchip in my drink
i am broadcasting

judih

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Post by mindbum » January 17th, 2005, 2:34 pm

you ole catfish you.

i like this. i laughed.
do you sing it and play guitar?
godless & songless, western man dances with the stuffed gorilla through all the blind alleys of a dead-end world.

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Re: I Am Mr. Plecostamus

Post by Axanderdeath » January 17th, 2005, 2:41 pm

billectric wrote:It's voice was high but smooth
Like the tubular muted pitch
Your get blowing into a bottle or jug.
It said, "I am Mister Plecostamus!
"I have painted the oranges blue
"And filled the washing machine with baloooons!"

And Mister Plecostamus laughed
With a giggle and a snort,
Fish eyes twinkled, looking eye to eye
With Jamie, for he was just that tall.
Wriggled out of the aquarium wearing a top hat, he did.
Jamie shivered.

The long, black mustachio-whiskers, slick,

"I am Mister Plecostamus!
"I dallied in the grass
"And ran a fishing line around your Bicycle!"
What is a Plecostamus?

somebody enlighten me...

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Post by billectric » January 17th, 2005, 2:53 pm

a plecostamus is a type of fish that people sometimes keep in aquariums. It may not be classified as a fish, I don't know. I think they help keep the tank clean, like snails do.
"Before I was enlightened, I chopped wood and carried water. After I became enlightened, I chopped wood and carried water."
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Post by billectric » January 17th, 2005, 2:55 pm

mindbum, I play the guitar and some say I can sort of sing when the mood hits me. i've written a bunch of songs but they are not as funky as Lightning Rod's compositions.
"Before I was enlightened, I chopped wood and carried water. After I became enlightened, I chopped wood and carried water."
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Post by mindbum » January 17th, 2005, 3:00 pm

plecostamus= algae eater = a type of catfish

bill-
i was just imagining this as a song.
i think i do that automatically with that picture of you and the gittar.
i like to imagine things.

that's why i have a computer.
godless & songless, western man dances with the stuffed gorilla through all the blind alleys of a dead-end world.

-maxwell bodenheim

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Post by Axanderdeath » January 17th, 2005, 3:05 pm

Ilike fish
like that fish in hitch iker's guide to the galaxy
ever thing in the universe has a point to it
that is a nice thought.

I like being able to screw up a joke and ask
for the punch line to be spelled out
for me
annd I am here to break in to conversations.

and post extremly long short stories and looking for
critics to please me onlty tyo ge regection and nothing.

But I like fish,
but if I had a chioce I would not want to come back as one,
maybe an autistic person maybe?

I don't know, just that is
how I have been writing lately.

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Post by mindbum » January 17th, 2005, 3:15 pm

a fish's short term memory is something like a 12 second loop.
godless & songless, western man dances with the stuffed gorilla through all the blind alleys of a dead-end world.

-maxwell bodenheim

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Post by billectric » January 18th, 2005, 11:54 am

12 seconds. I didn't know that. Interesting.

"Hey, did I ever tell you I used to be human but came back as a fish?"

"Yeah."

"Hey, did I ever tell you I used to be human but came back as a fish?"

"Yes, you did."

"Hey, did I ever tell you I used to be human but came back as a fish?"

"YES! You told me already! Alright?"

"Hey, did I ever tell you I used to be human but came back as a fish?"

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