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[jimhines]

Q: How did Sleeping Beauty invest her gold?
A: Hedge funds.

I’m sorry.  That joke popped into my head right before lunch.  In a just universe, my nemesis would plot me a horrible demise for writing it.  My brain is still recovering from the long weekend of lawnwork, back pain, hospital visits (a friend with an injured arm), and family time.  So it’

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[mabfan]

I love that joke. You have to use it somewhere in the books.

[jimhines]

I'm afraid the anachronism would throw readers right out. But if I ever do another story for CatsCurious' Faery Taile Project, I could probably work it in :-)

[marycatelli]

Obviously, what you should do is grade the candidate nemeses by how horrible a death they can devise.

I'll go by the oldie but goodie: nibbled to death by ducks.

ducks that are enchanted queens and princes and princesses and peasant children, at that. To maintain a theme.

[marycatelli]

This way, you can determine whether we live in a just universe. 0:)

[jimhines]

I could announce that, or I could just sit back and wait to see which of my potential nemeses are the sort to take the initiative on their own :-)

[jimhines]

I'm glad. Brain just isn't up for coherent blogging today...

[barbarienne]

Classic spork! That redesigned thing isn't a spork. That serrated knife-edge thing must irritate the hell out of all right-handed people when they try to use the spoon part.

[jimhines]

It's another leftist conspiracy, I tell ya!

[georgmi]

I must agree. The "Ultimate Spork" is not a spork. Also, you better hope you don't have both soup and steak in the same meal, or your hand is going to get messy.

But my vote has to go to "none of the above", because in this case, 3x the right tool is far better than 1x a tool that doesn't do anything particularly well.

[jimhines]

"But round about the castle there began to grow a hedge of thorns, which every year became higher, and at last grew close up round the castle and all over it, so that there was nothing of it to be seen, not even the flag upon the roof."

::Pokes back::

[georgmi]

Internet foul: using actual evidence to support a position.

Suspension of your IP address is in progress.

[jimhines]

You're just a mean old rule Nazi!

(Does Godwin's Law get my IP address reinstated?)