Cranky Large Medium reading, 22 December

Go away.

Will you please leave? Do I have to call the police? Awww, that wouldn't work, anyway, because they think I'm a crank, and don't answer my calls. Just what will it take to make you leave me? Oh, right. A reading. Well, then, here you are:

Ha ha very funny. You have some sense of humor, you have. At least you try to avoid hurting people's feelings, and are happy to impoverish yourself for the sake of every beggar. You have to be surrounded by crowds, be the center of attention, and can't sit still for a minute. Keep working on finding a home, you might, if you really work at it, make it a happy one. But then, work isn't necessarily your forte.

Are you happy, now? Of course not. Jolly joker can't take a joke. Well, at least you're better off than these people, all of whom, on this date, were taken in by the final joke: Richard Plantagenet, Mehmed III, André Tacquet, Percivall Pott, William Hyde Wollaston, Jean-Victor Poncelet, James Meade, Dwight L. Moody, Maria Francesca Cabrini, John Newbery, Mary Anne Evans aka George Eliot, Nathanael West, Beatrix Potter, Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett "Ma" Rainey, Dennes Dale Boon, David Darwin Petruska aka Dave Dudley, Dennis Linde, Darryl F. Zanuck, Harry Langdon, Don Defore, Butterfly McQueen, Michelle Thomas, Doug Ault, Elena Mukhina, William Vernon, Franz Boas, Chico Mendes,

and Joe Strummer.

London may call, but nobody answers.
Happy birthday, anyway.