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    Old 04-13-2009, 04:18 AM
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    You know that game you played as a kid, we called it 'gossip'?
    Somebody started with a line and whispered to person next to them and then that person whispered what they thought was said
    to the next person, and so on, until it got to the last person in the circle. Then the last person told out loud, what they heard
    and many times, things got changed in the exchange
    and became much funnier than the original message.
    I have noticed at times, how funny it is, when someone replies to me, and I go from email to the reply, and read, and then the person that comes after that, is either replying to the 'poster', or someone else,
    but it sounds very funny at the moment I read it.
    I thought it would be fun to say a line, and have someone go next and add a line, either relative to that information or just something they thing would be funny, added to it...and keep it going, to see where the story twists and winds to. I'll start...

    Long ago, in a far away land, a young girl and her brother, heard a new word; the grown ups were saying, "quilt"....
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    Old 04-13-2009, 05:10 AM
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    They whispered together trying to figure out if it was a nice word or a bad word, after all it wasn't a 4 letter word
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    Old 04-13-2009, 07:14 AM
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    They thought maybe it meant someone was sick as mom always went someplace else to "quilt".
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    Old 04-13-2009, 05:07 PM
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    Maybe it was the old wrinkled lady who lived in the cottage with all the pretty colors inside
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    Old 04-13-2009, 05:56 PM
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    So the young girl and her brother started down the garden path to go see what the old lady in the cottage was doing with all those pretty colors....
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    But on the way they were waylaid by a wolf whose name was "quilt police". Oh my, but they ran and......
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    Old 04-13-2009, 08:43 PM
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    When all of a sudden there was a giant tree directly ahead of them full of....
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    Old 04-13-2009, 08:49 PM
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    Lollipops - but when they reached out to pick one....
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    A door opened in the bottom of the tree and
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    Old 04-14-2009, 06:20 AM
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    The little girl Rachel and her brother Jake looked at each other with excitement showing in their eyes! Rachel said " Maybe this is the way to find out what a quilt is!!!" So.............
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