"Q: What's the difference between a blonde track team and a
tribe of sly pygmies?
A: One's a bunch a cunning runts."
"Q: What's the difference between a counterfeit dollar and
a skinny blonde?
A: One's a phony buck."
A blonde enters a porno shop.
She asks, "How much for the white dildo?"
The shop attendant answers, "$35."
She: "How much for the black one?"
He: "$35 for the black one, $35 for the white one."
She: "I think I'll take the black one. I've never had a black
one before."
She pays him, and off she goes.
A little bit later a black woman comes in and asks "How much
for the black dildo?"
He: "$35."
She: "How much for the white one?"
He: "$35 for the white one, $35 for the black one."
She: "Hmmm...I think I'll take the white one. I've never had a
white one before..."
She pays him, and off she goes.
About an hour later a young blonde woman comes in and asks,
"How much are your dildos?"
He: "$35 for the white, $35 for the black."
She: "Hmmmmm....how much is that plaid one on the shelf?"
He: "Well, that's a very special dildo...it'll cost you $165."
She thinks for a moment and answers, "I'll take the plaid one,
I've never had a plaid one before...."
She pays him, and off she goes.
The guys's boss enters after a while and asks, "How did you do
while I was gone?"
The salesman responded, "I did really good, I sold one white
dildo, one black dildo, and I sold your thermos for $165!"
HIDDEN ARTICLE NUMBER FOUR
The above was all slightly rude and certainly not very
depressing. To create somewhat of a contrast, the rest of this
article is somewhat less rude and quite depressing. It was hidden
because it's the sort of depressing shit that not everybody
should need to read.
ODE TO DEPRESSION
(NOT)
by Richard Karsmakers
Sometimes you feel rotten. Not like an apple can be rotten, but
like the earth is rotten, polluted and awfully smelly - full of
more than four billion people who pollute and smell.
Isn't it strange that a beautiful thing, a thing called love,
can actually be the reason for all this rottenness? It might be
strange but it's certainly true. I just wanted to spill my deeply
depressed emotions on you all. Call me a bastard - maybe indeed I
am one.
I've spent the last five days of my life without Miranda. Not
that we've broken up or something but she's doing something for
her veterinary studies in the southern part of Holland that makes
it necessary for her to stay at her parents' place for a week. My
CD device plays "Perpetual Burn", a Great Work by an incredibly
talented young man called Jason Becker who is 23 but who I know
will probably never become 25. On top of that, I've spent the
last hour or so reading the articles gathered together in this
issue of ST NEWS under the heading "Gard's Geo of Lament".
These three things mounted on top of one another cause your
heart to feel heavy, your surroundings to go dark, your joy of
life to be sucked away as if by some diabolic leech. All in all I
feel pretty awful, in case you hadn't yet noticed.
For five nights I've had sleepless nights in, to quote The
Police, a bed that is too big without her. I just look outside
and gaze at the infinity of space, the thousands of little specks
of dust we call stars for lack of a more impressive and more
befitting word. I turn around, instinctively attempting to
embrace her. My leg sinks through a void in bed that is echoed in
my heart.
Frustrated, I turn around again, back to the windows. Once more
I stare outside. The moon is visible. The same moon under which
we have kissed, the moon under which we have cried cries of
passion, the same moon under which she now sleeps alone, too,
away from me.
Only the other evening I cycled along a railway track. In the
distance I heard the gathering sound of a train closing in on the
bit of time and space I happened to occupy. The lights are bright
as they come closer and closer. It seems as if they are probing
the night, touching it with rigid tentacles.
There is no mist.
I try to imagine what a train would look like when it rushed
straight at you - when the light eventually probes you instead of
the darkness, when the tentacles touch a body that has preciously
few seconds left to do anything. Of course I could jump away but
it would ruin the whole thing. I'd have to go through with the
thing. I'm no coward. Just in love, but without anyone to.
The train rushes by, its wind too far off even to preemptively
tug at my clothes, the sound of its steel wheels not loud enough
to deafen me. I shake my head.
There is still no mist. It would have been more beautiful with
it, but alas.
Though not half as depressing as having to go home to a place
where you know nobody will be waiting for you for an indefinite
time, I cycle on home through the darkness to a bed that's too
big, too cold.
Outside, summer is slowly transforming itself into autumn.
Melancholy, colder winds, shorter days. Another day ticks away in
all mortal lives.
A first autumn leaf falls, forelorn.
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