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# Title: "A Day in the Life of a Shoe Salesman" Date: 9/29/87
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The great star cruiser made leaps and bounds throughout the
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galaxy.
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Approaching a small, insignificant little blue planet, in the
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middle of a small, insignificant little solar system, it slowed down.
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It's onboard computers had picked up a distant FM radio broadcasting
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"Only In My Dreams." In that alien tounge, the song translated to an
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advertisement for dual-quad Biosphrellic unleaded Gas (at only 3
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Megamoolas a gallon), which the ship was in dire need for.
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They proceeded to land. Actually, "landing" was more or less
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a mollecular transfer (a'la "Beam me up, Scotty" ) for this high-tech
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race. Their engineers had dreamed this up years back in the '60s
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when watching the "Star Trek" series.
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Urglm Zaspool, Captain of the ship, gave some
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not-so-significant orders to a not-so-significant crew (one member of
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the crew disobeyed orders and warped himself to Galagatron 5, where
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he made a fortune in the used washing machine industry, but that's
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another story.)
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The ship, not having any sort of map or whatnot on this
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particular planet, just decided to warp down and take it from there.
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They happened to land in the midst of a large shopping mall.
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Unfortunately, the size of this great ship was about .024
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millimeters in Earth measurements, so they were never able to get
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out of the vast chamber they were caught in (the inside of a pair of
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Reeboks in the back of the mall's Pic-Way Shoe Mart).
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You think YOU have problems. Become a shoe salesman.
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-:-
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