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The Official Newspaper of Stinky Creek, Texas |
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The Official Newspaper of Stinky Creek, Texas |
Spittoon Features
Front Page The Daily Spittoon is updated every Monday morning before the entire staff heads over to the Stinky Creek Saloon for lunch. If you have any complaints, don't interrupt us while we're eating. Just send us an email. Send all
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I'm Just a Guy -- continued from Front
Page What’s wrong with us? Why do we think it’s better to go to work or school than to stay at home and watch little Johnny from down the street get clobbered in a snowball battle? I, like many of you, can remember laying in bed at night, wishing with all my might for just enough snow to fall to make going to school impossible. One day would be enough – I wasn’t greedy. One day would be all my brother and I needed to thoroughly annihilate each other with snow bombs and then set out to make the biggest snowman the world had ever seen. One year, we got our picture in the local newspaper because of our snowman. Later, we took that snowman, piece by piece, and set it up against our neighbor’s door so he couldn’t get out. We rang the doorbell and ran for our lives. He wasn’t very happy, but that’s a different story. Those were glorious days. They were magical days. They were days of wet socks and hot chocolate. And what will OUR children remember? They’ll remember we woke them up, told them it was snowing, and then patted them on their heads and sent them off to school. I can understand being blasé about snow if you live in some far away place where snow is a four-letter word – but this is Texas. Snow doesn’t fall every day. And when it does, it should be an official day of celebration. We know exactly what day Christmas and birthdays fall on. We hope beyond hope that our Aunt Edna in El Paso will send us money instead of an itchy homemade sweater. But Snow Days are different. We never know when they’re going to happen. They’re like moveable holidays that just jump up and pelt us with slushy wet ones. And that’s what makes them so great. My fellow Americans, this country is in need of change. This country is in need of hope. We need to stand tall and tell those politicians in Austin we believe in a better tomorrow. A tomorrow where we won’t take ourselves too seriously, and that we are not ashamed of enjoying all the good things in life. Together, with conviction, we will celebrate Snow Days as one. |
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