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File : ABE-ANAN.TXT
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Author : Wolfman
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BBS : The Banana Republic BBS
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1863 a Gettysburg Banana
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Fourscore and seven afternoon snacks ago our foreBananas brought forth on this
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BBS a new Republic, conceived in Bananahood, and dedicated to the proposition
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that all Bananas are created equal (under Barri).
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Now we are engaged in a great war against Banana eaters and the Black
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Tarantulas testing whether that the Republic, or any lunch so conceived and so
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well ripened, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
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We have come to dedicate a portion of this BBS as a final resting-place for
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those Bananas who here gave their skins so that others may live and do normal
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Banana things. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But,
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in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow
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this BBS. The brave Bananas, living and eaten, who laid down their skins here
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have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will
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little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what
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they did here. It is for us the uneaten rather, to be dedicated here to the
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unfinished work which those Bananas who surrended the white mushy bits in the
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centre here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here
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dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honoured
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eaten we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave their last
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full measure of fruitfulness - that we here highly resolve that these eaten
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shall not have been eaten because there was nothing else in the friut basket -
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that this Republic, under Barri, shall have a new birth of divine dictatorship
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of the Bananas, by the Bananas, for the Bananas, shall not overripen and so
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perish from the earth.
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AUTHOR : Wolfman
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Brought to the WORLD by The Banana Republic BBS
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