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peanut is an awkward legume
peanut

wendy made me post this.  she threatened to take my eyes out with forks and then castrate me with the nerve endings from my eye sockets.

a peanut is an awkward legume.
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it fears simple things
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like human beings
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for instance,
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or telephone calls
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to people it hasn't talked to very often...
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like the pizza man.
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so don't ask the peanut to order you food
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because it will get scared.
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the peanut also fears human beings in large groups.
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it avoids these groups by remaining
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in a small huddled up ball
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at the corner of its room
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drowning in music
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or books.
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a peanut also longs for
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significant other peanuts
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to hold its hand and eskimo-kiss it
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(which are some of a peanut's favorite romantics)
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the peanut usually excells at
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anything it puts it's little peanut mind to.
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it doens't really specialize in anything.
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which is proving to be difficult in choosing a
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peanut college.
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but the nut is pretty sure it wants to be an archetect
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or a physicist of some sort...
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"physicist"?
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oh yes,
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neither can the peanut spell.
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spelling has long since been the enemy of the peanut
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who befriends itself with the dictionary to fight its wordly battles.
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i'm pretty sure the peanut is
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mostly a walking contradiction.
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one reason is obviously that the nut works in a coffee shop
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and hates the taste of coffee...
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make sense to you?
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so don't ask a peanut for its
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reccomendation on which bean tastes like what,
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or what it suggests that you try.
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it'll be a lie.
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unless the nut tells you to get chai...
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chai to buy.
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mmm mmm
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green chai latte is the favored drink of the nut.
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at night,
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peanuts like to get a lot of sleep
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and almost crash their cars on the way to school in the morning
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if they don't get said sleep.
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they also like to excell in school
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but don't do much homework
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because they are usually at work
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or at extra classes that they took for reasons that they know not of now
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but are strongly suggesting to themselves that they drop these classes.
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i hope some of this information was helpful in understanding the nut. to read more, you may so visit the xanga of the peanut www.xanga.com/************ or check out it's myspace at www.myspace.com/*******
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*cartwheels away*
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specially for PC members:  for more information on the nut, you may visit the live journal of the nut, www.livejournal.com/~the_nut  at your own leisure.  i hope this information does you some good in case you ever encounter...me.
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thankyouandgoodday
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28 Sep 05

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good title.
 — bettalpha

Is this EXACTLY the same as the one in your lj? If not, I WILL castrate you!
I LOVE!
 — wendz

good god, I'm a peanut and I didn't even know it!
 — Virgil

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