Folded Thought of the Day: From the "Wildly Adventurous Adventures of Nick Wicked, Intergalactic Man About Town." Tonight's Episode: The Trouble with Alabaster Everything was going as planned; except of course for the fact that I was already twenty three thousand in the hole and the strong feeling that had developed so recently regarding the number 17 had now left and I was fairly certain that the wheel had conspired against me -- first to instill my confidence in this digit, and second to somehow manage to convey this betrayal to me just seconds before the ball rested comfortably on 03, thus sealing my fate. All that my memory will portion out regarding the events that transpired subsequent to this debacle are as follows: I remember being in a room that smelled of some sort of meat by-product, a man stood over me, tattoos resembling noel coward and the brass section of the Boston Pops covered the left side of his body. His demeanor was highly comical and I had to suppress a laugh as he reached inside my mouth and proceeded to feel around for my heart. He ceased his probing when another man, well not actually a man per se, a sort of half-man, half-lobster looking fellow orbited his way into the room. ----------- Do you have a good idea of where to go with this? Well, don't just sit there, send me your continuation of this story and we'll take it from there. ------------------------