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a land not that far, far away lived a Princess, or at least that's what
she liked to be known as. |
She was married to the Prince, or at least that's what he liked to be
known as.
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One fine Summer's morn, they woke up licking their wounds after appearing on
a game show called 'Mr + Mrs
Luurve', where not only did they come second
but they also came away with not a single prize.
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| ''Woe,
woe and thrice woe'', said Princess. ''Winning that show would have wiped
out all of our debts. The prize money would not only have paid off the mortgage on
the house..... |
... but also the credit card loan on the 24
carat gold ring, .....
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.... as well as keeping at bay those loan sharks chasing after the money we owe on the genuine
antique chalice
cup as used by King Arthur....
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also not forgetting the debt we've got on that personal, private plane of ours.'' |
''Oh, what turkeys we are'', exclaimed Princess.
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''You're right, there's no bull about this massive debt we owe'', cried
Prince tearfully, in a manly sort of way.
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| “Yep,
we really are in the ….” and before he could finish his sentence in
flew an owl, called ‘The All Wise Great Ori-cle’. |
“What you need”
hooted the owl, “is a basket of luck or lots of money”.
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“No, what we need”
retorted Princess, “is for it to be
Christmas
and everybody to give us
lots and lots of presents - not that I'm greedy or ungrateful”.
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| Ignoring
Princesses remark, The Great Ori-cle continued “I will send you on a quest –
an
Ori-quest to the 'Land of Thingymyjigs’ and you shall fly there by
Pete the Pegasus”. |
“Once there,
you will need to locate the hidden treasure trove guarded by a fearsome
paper dragon”.
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“To get past him, you need
to make the paper dragon fold and crease so much with laughter that he
doesn’t notice you entering the cave he’s guarding”. “Oh boy”,
said Princess “we need a
wing and a prayer
for this one”.
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| "We
don't know any jokes", said Prince. "But the Thingymyjigs do and
they know where the dragon is as well", replied The Great Ori-cle.
"Well, what are we waiting for. Lets go then", said Prince and
Princess together, forgetting in their haste that they were leaving Ronnie
their
pet rhinocerous,
to fend for himself. |
The land of the Thingymyjigs was just simply awesome. Mountains, lakes
and...well thingymyjigs everywhere. They asked the first thingymyjig they came
across for a joke as well as directions to the dragon. These he imparted
freely as well as wishing them luck... lots of luck!
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The second thingmyjig
they came across also freely gave out a joke and directions as well.
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