For all those Star Trek puritans...

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Bob Schroeck wrote:

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The results were a really warped colleciton of stuff, including Vladimir Nabokov (imitating the opening of Lolita: "My Roo, my rue... She stood
barely five feet tall in her boxer shorts...") and Henny Youngman (repeating the sample joke word for word). But my two favorites were:

The Kangaroo


by Edgar Allen Poe




Once upon a midnight beery


Waiting for the owner, Cleary,


To return and take me weary


From the place and lock the door,


In there came a hopping mammal


To the bar and lit a Camel,


Then it ordered a martini.


(Damnedest thing I ever saw.)


"Vodka," (it said) "Stolichnaya.


Pile the ice a little higher.


Less vermouth, I like it drier.


And some olives, por favor."


Thinking fast to make a few bucks,


Back from ten I gave it two bucks,


Saying, "You're an odd one, Mister,


Never seen your type before."


"At these prices? Nevermore!"

@_@ *falls over*