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    <title>Foolery</title>
    
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    <updated>2013-04-20T06:55:38-07:00</updated>
    <subtitle>So much foolery, we had to start our own country.</subtitle>
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        <title>Naps Are a State of Mind</title>
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        <published>2013-04-20T06:55:38-07:00</published>
        <updated>2013-04-20T06:55:51-07:00</updated>
        <summary>Oh, to be that carefrree again. Not to mention flexible.</summary>
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            <name>foolery</name>
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<content type="xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://fooleryland.com/foolery/"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><a class="asset-img-link" href="http://fooleryland.com/.a/6a00d83451972669e201901b6e94c6970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0' ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="WallySleeping" class="asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451972669e201901b6e94c6970b" src="http://fooleryland.com/.a/6a00d83451972669e201901b6e94c6970b-500wi" style="width: 470px;" title="WallySleeping" /></a><br /><br />Oh, to be that carefrree again. Not to mention<strong> flexible.</strong><xhtml:img xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Foolery/~4/mbRoeiYncjg" height="1" width="1" /></div></content>



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        <title>Paging Dr. Lipschitz . . .</title>
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        <published>2013-04-06T08:02:09-07:00</published>
        <updated>2013-04-06T08:02:09-07:00</updated>
        <summary>Got this message yesterday: "I have a Chicken Poop delivery for you. Don’t argue. Just give me your chicken coop shipping address and no one gets hurt." How could I argue with that? Of course, by the time I checked...</summary>
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            <name>foolery</name>
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<content type="xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://fooleryland.com/foolery/"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Got this message yesterday:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">"I have a Chicken Poop delivery for you.</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">Don’t argue. Just give me</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">your chicken coop shipping address</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">and no one gets hurt."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;">How could I argue with that? Of course, by the time I checked my messages I was already late for the Chicken Poop Assasin's delivery schedule, so I got this second message:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">"What?!?</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">The cat’s got your tongue you say?</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">Cough it up Sister."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;">I obeyed. You don't mess with someone who claims to have chicken poop and knows how to use it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;">When I got home from Yet Another Longest Work Week Of My Life my children were excitedly directing me to the mysterious box on the counter.</span><br /><br />
<a class="asset-img-link" href="http://fooleryland.com/.a/6a00d83451972669e2017c3864a600970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0' ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="MysteryBox" class="asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451972669e2017c3864a600970b" src="http://fooleryland.com/.a/6a00d83451972669e2017c3864a600970b-500wi" style="width: 470px;" title="MysteryBox" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Which, of course, they had already opened.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Inside was a note, addressed ATTN: CHIEF HENHOUSEKEEPER &amp; HER FLOCK:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">"Sage advice:</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">Grandpa says,</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">'If ya got dry lips,</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">put chicken poop on 'em</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">so you won't lick 'em!"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;">And the there was this:</span><br /><br />
<a class="asset-img-link" href="http://fooleryland.com/.a/6a00d83451972669e2017eea080114970d-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0' ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="ChickenPoop" class="asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451972669e2017eea080114970d" src="http://fooleryland.com/.a/6a00d83451972669e2017eea080114970d-500wi" style="width: 470px;" title="ChickenPoop" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;">The note continued,</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">"That's why those displays</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">are called IMPULSE DISPLAYS.</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">I know it. You know it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">Everybody knows it -- IT WORKS.</span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">And I love it."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;">The culprit was, of course, Chicken Fran, one of the funniest, most creative people I know. Here she is at Prom:</span><br /><br />
<a class="asset-img-link" href="http://fooleryland.com/.a/6a00d83451972669e2017d4293ba7a970c-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0' ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="ChickenFran" class="asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451972669e2017d4293ba7a970c" src="http://fooleryland.com/.a/6a00d83451972669e2017d4293ba7a970c-500wi" style="width: 470px;" title="ChickenFran" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;">A huge thank you to Franny Lipschitz for the big laugh and the chapped lip medicine. You may expect a delivery from the Cow Pie Bakery soon.</span><xhtml:img xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Foolery/~4/wHhUR_7EXQk" height="1" width="1" /></div></content>



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    <entry>
        <title>Don't Give Her Too Much Credit</title>
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        <published>2013-04-05T07:03:54-07:00</published>
        <updated>2013-04-05T07:03:54-07:00</updated>
        <summary>Chas told me what had happened with wide eyes. "She got onto the internet, found the site, and made the purchase in no time at all, with my credit card." "Oh no." Oh yes. Smedley bought movie tickets for the...</summary>
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            <name>foolery</name>
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<content type="xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://fooleryland.com/foolery/"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Chas told me what had happened with wide eyes. "She got onto the internet, found the site, and made the purchase in no time at all, <em>with my credit card."</em></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;">"Oh no."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;"><em>Oh yes.</em> Smedley bought movie tickets for the group on-line because the available adults could not have gotten it done.</span><br /><br />
<a class="asset-img-link" href="http://fooleryland.com/.a/6a00d83451972669e2017c385debde970b-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0' ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="Fandango" class="asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451972669e2017c385debde970b" src="http://fooleryland.com/.a/6a00d83451972669e2017c385debde970b-500wi" style="width: 470px;" title="Fandango" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Life as we know it is OVER.</span><xhtml:img xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Foolery/~4/MEVoWoQX8dQ" height="1" width="1" /></div></content>



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