BTW, I checked a couple odds-making sites, and this has not appeared yet. But anybody can start a betting thread.
#6 | Posted by vernon
"Yeah, that's what I thought," the fat little man schlumped in the doorway of the Pinky Minky Sex Shoppe, Shitzu Massage Parlor & Noodlerama perched curbside on the nearly deserted, muddy walkway that veered off the wrong side of the Sun Yat-sen Freeway toward the Jilong River muttered to himself as he checked his broken wristwatch -- in which he could barely see and be reminded, as if reminding was really needed, that, yes, his makeup had run...again -- nodded, burped up a noxious bubble comprised -- so it would appear -- of equal parts raw squid, snot-slick noodle, peanut butter, and Pace Picante Sauce (specially imported from the land he'd left behind), sighed, scratched his days'-old growth of black-gone-to-gray beard and slurred, "Yup, it's that time again" as preparation for the effort required to hoist himself up into a close-to-standing position from which he might survey the wrack and ruin of his life as his paws searched his pockets -- finding, in one, some fossilized bubblegum and, in another, the remains of a jujube-crackerjack repast -- asked himself the question that -- he suddenly realized, with a bob of his noggin that just kept on a-bobbin' -- he asked himself more and more these days as the sun of his life set into the....oh, hell, what difference did it make anyway: "Anybody can start a betting thread, right? So how was I supposed to know that was a problem in Jersey? I mean, what are the odds?" And with that, his knees still aching from where the metal baseball bat collided with bone so long ago, he remembered something special and wonderful and warming to his his dark little heart and, as a neuron or two seemed to wake up, groggy, and bestir themselves within his noggin, he reached into the breast pocket of his Pinky Lee sportcoat and withdrew his last remaining treasure: his calcultaor, with which he proceeded, leaning like the tower at Pisa in the doorway, exactly what the odds might be.
