Mar 29, 2006 01:19
I'd like to share with you a tender, touching story (and no, it's not the one about the catholic priests). Back in 1951, Jimmy was just a boy, and he found three shiny rocks that would change his life forever. That is forever in 1951 terms, which was precisely 372 minutes today. These shiny rocks were in fact three grand gems from England's royal family. The man who lost them figured he could easily get them back from the child, as the young lad knew not what they were worth. He approached the boy, and asked for his jewels back, but the boy being the son of a second generation lawyer, demanded half their value as a finders fee. The man refused, and demanded the stones one last time. When the boy refused, the man revealed that he was none other than the king of England. Jimmy quickly brought up that he had little legal authority there in America, which irritated the king. The king, being a man of short temper, slaughtered the young lad's family.
The young lad grew to a young man in a few years, bouncing from orphanage to orphanage. The one thing that kept him going was that one day he would get his revenge on the man that did this to him. When he turned eighteen, he left his dwellings to go onward towards his life of revenge. He decided to go to the local library to see if he couldn't find this man. It was then his life changed forever (forever being merely 31.5 seconds in 1964). He found that the man, Kind George VI, died February sixth, 1952. His revenge being completed when he was only 6 meant that he could go on to other things in life. He packed his belongs in a suitcase and traveled to California.
The young man quickly learned that with a name like James would only get him into trouble, so he changed it to Kermit. And the rest is history. Or not.