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brie k wrote:

Our dawg is top-notch!!!

and I hope your evening is going better than your day did, aire. Smile

You betcha! Wink

sonnylax wrote:

I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees. I write award-winning operas and manage time efficiently. I often tread water for three days at a time. I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic and all my bills are paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full contact origami. I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing and can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed and I cook thirty-minute brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love and an outlaw in Peru. Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, the Russian Ballet scouted me, and I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I’m bored, I build suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hand gliding. On Wednesdays, after church, I repair electrical appliances free of charge. I’m an abstract artist, a concrete analyst and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy eveningwear. I don’t perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat .400. My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circle. Children trust me. I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise lost, Moby Dick and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food at the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations for the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me.

Well placed, Sonny, but I think you should credit the origin. This is supposedly a college application essay, and it ends with "But I have not yet gone to college." I don't know the actual author but I saw it at least 10 years ago. It's a great piece.

Gogirlgo wrote:

Hugh Gallagher was eighteen when his college application essay won first place in Scholastic Inc.'s high school writing contest in 1990.

And according to one website, he ended his essay with "But I have not yet gone to this University."