Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1999 23:33:45 -0500
From: "a bibliobibuli! beware, beware!" <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: [WRITERS] EXERCISE: Cream Corn (was FILL:)

At 11:42 PM 1/5/99 -0500, Michael Barnes wrote:
:)Not that anyone remotely cares, but im a grocery store manager down south and
:)we sell cream corn by the case load, so there must be a few of you out there
:)who eat the stuff, or perhaps its cheaper than pet food
:)
:)michael

All right, we have a mystery...

The folks in Littletown, U.S.A. are buying cream corn by the case.

And what are they doing with it?

The latest craze in body lotion?  lump along with Simmons?

Cream corn -- the best way to put up wallpaper with character!  Just spread
and bump...yes, you too can have a wall full of corn?

You've heard of corn squeezings?  I'll bet you didn't know that it's easier
if you start with cream...

The midnight corn slides!  Under the bright moon shine, the devotees of this
ritual gather at the crest of the Hill with their cream corn in the back of
their trucks.  They open the cans and start pouring the corn down, down,
down the track.  Then they slide.  They slither, they slosh, they spray
kernels everywhere.  You have to be careful around them, because it gets
pretty corny out there :-)

Think about what the folks in Anytown, U.S.A. might be doing with all that
cream corn, then tell us the story of the can that got away (or whatever
story you come up with!)

and thank Michael, the grocery store owner from down South!


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because the eyes of you and me will be full of dirt some day).  Quickly take
me up into the bright child of your mind."  Edward Estlin Cummings

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