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Shiny new toys
Jan. 22nd, 2008 09:36 pmThere is an outbreak of new and shiny things on my f-list: ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lamentables has a pretty red shiny, desperance had the Laptop of Heavenly Perfection. I have new and shiny, too, but I'm always wary of new and shiny: like the orang-utans, I am sceptical of changes in my cage*. Which version of the lightbulb joke is it that goes:
( New shiny flatscreen monitor )
( New shiny food-processor )
More pleasurable than either of these, though, is a shiny new book. And I has a shiny new book, so shiny new that it hasn't been published yet, hot off my printer in batches of 50 pages (because I don't want it too hot off the printer). And it's full of good things: islands and pirates and a dragon - shiny!
*Very well, I admit it: like the zookeeper, I am also is very fond of rum.
lamentables has a pretty red shiny, desperance had the Laptop of Heavenly Perfection. I have new and shiny, too, but I'm always wary of new and shiny: like the orang-utans, I am sceptical of changes in my cage*. Which version of the lightbulb joke is it that goes:How many --- does it take to change a light-bulb?That's me. Nonetheless, I have new and shiny:
What's wrong with the old light-bulb?
( New shiny flatscreen monitor )
( New shiny food-processor )
More pleasurable than either of these, though, is a shiny new book. And I has a shiny new book, so shiny new that it hasn't been published yet, hot off my printer in batches of 50 pages (because I don't want it too hot off the printer). And it's full of good things: islands and pirates and a dragon - shiny!
*Very well, I admit it: like the zookeeper, I am also is very fond of rum.
