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Date:   Fri, 3 May 2002 21:33:41 -0500
Reply-To:   Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:   Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
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Subject:   Re: Clam Flogging!! at the Court House, Tomorrow Night (long-ish)
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> > Hope those clams are virgins! > > > > (Would that be cherry clams????) > > If they're virgins, can we flog them!?!?!

boy, thar be some really sick people on this list!!!

i mean, think about it: flogging clams!!!?? you ever try to flog a clam? or even an oyster? how about a turtle ... it's just a clam with legs, fer crying out loud ... but the point is, all these little jobbers had HARD SHELLS!!! not exactly the perfect target of flogging!!

nooooooo, flogging is for softshelled thingies like peoples, horses, dogs, cats, mules, oxens, cows, and the occasional watermelons or, in a pinch, cantaloupes.

the idea of flogging is to ...

(a) inflict pain

(b) induce the floggee to never even want to think about the activities/actions/words that have brought him/her/it to this sorry state of affairs. unless, of course, said floggee borders on the masochistic side of crazy and just loves being flogged. in that case, you're better off just burning them at the stake ... saves time and money.

(c) get the flogger worked up into a veritable state of frenzey and acute sexual excitement, culminating in a complete collapse of all social restraints and responsibilities ... now THIS is what people will pay to see. nothing like some father-raper or mother-stabber, frothing at the mouth with carnal lust and depraved indifference to bodily functions, whupping away to beat the band/person/horse/dog/cat/mule/ox/cow/watermelon. i mean, there's money to be made here, folks ...

(d) satisfy the perceived need of society to punish persons adjudged as wrong-doers. as we all know, societies of all sizes just LOVE to point fingers and signify some person or group as a wrong-doer ... an outcast of society. even ancient biologists and anthropologists have determined that to be the only reason humans are born with five fingers: more to point at wrong-doers. to pick up stuff, we only need three fingers. fer baseball and football, we only need four. but for the designation of wrong-doers, it's hard to beat them five fingers. :)

and now i ask you:

(a) - what pain do you think a clam is gonna feel? zero. nada. zilch. i mean, first of all, it's got a hard shell. second of all, it's hasn't got much of a brain ... anybody ever SEE a clam brain? makes a B-B look gigantic!!

(b) - ever know a clam to feel bad about anything? ever know a clam to DO anything worth feeling bad about?

(c) - ok, so the flogger could still get worked up about his job ... but the fellows in the white coats are gonna be looking REALLY closely at him. i mean, just imagine you walked up on some fellow on the beach, just flogging away at a clam or even a bucket of clams; what would YOU think??

(d) - kinda doubt that society really cares much about pointing fingers at clams. eating them, maybe, but how many laws do you know what punishes clams for anything? when's the last time you ever heard of any clams being arrested?

so, based on the evidence presented heretofore, i think we can all assume that flogging clams is a total waste of time and bandwidth. and is likely to get you locked away somewhere in a room with a lot of people that you really do NOT want to know about. unless you happen to be someone who likes flogging clams ... in that case, they'll likely put you in a room all to yourself; in a nice white padded jacket. with looooooooong arms. that fasten in the rear.

see them clam-floggers, ain't they a peach? flogging them clamshells, up and down the beach; how to be a clam-flogger, ain't nothing to it ... get yourself a whip and clam and flog it, flog it, flog it!

then there's the really sick ones ...

the frog floggers (say that fast, three times in a row) the log floggers (perverts of the "I'm a Lumberjack" ilk) the fog floggers (weathermen gone amuck) the bog floggers (cranberry pickers deeply disturbed) the cog floggers (engineers that slipped a gear or two) the dog floggers (canine cavorting, strictly forbidden by the ASPCA and AKC) the hog floggers (perversion, southern style) the jog floggers (not a real perversion: just fat people who haven't sense enough not to jog in public)

but there's no sense in going into all those right now.

happy Fryedaye, Ffolkes. :) unca joel


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