My friend Edna is a confirmed infomercial junkie. Over the years, she has bought more useless trash than anyone I know. In the early days, it was stuff like The Clapper and Chia Pets. Now that she has satellite T.V., she has graduated to more sophisticated stuff.
I stopped by to return a borrowed book and found her, as usual, glued to the T.V. "Edna, I just wanted to give you back your..." "Shhhh! Listen! This stuff is amazing!" "Whaaa?" "I told you," she hissed, "I think this stuff can change my life!"
The announcer is droning on. "...with my patented formula, you will notice a definite change in only 24 hours. Aaaaannnd, it's guaranteed!" The camera pans in for a close up. The guy has a cheesy, I'm-so-sincere kind of smile. "Ladies, I wanna make your world better than it's ever been".
"Oh, come ON, Edna," I groan, "how can you fall for this crap over and over again? None of these products really work. If you want to look younger, save your money and have a face lift". "But is has phytoestrogens, progesterone and even a little bit of testosterone in it. I think I'm in hormone heaven! This is the real deal, Susie". I'm still a bit dazed. "Uh, Edna? Why would you want to put testosterone on your face? Run that by me one more time". She doesn't respond, but continues to stare slack-jawed at the screen.
Jazzy music blares. The announcer blathers on. Now a special "guest" appears. She is a stylish older woman with silver hair and a flawless face. More blah blah blah. ",,,,and I got POWERFUL results! I was skeptical at first, but, well...you got me believing it," she gushed. By now, Edna is really worked up. Her arm shoots toward me but her eyes never leave the screen. "Quick!" she snaps, "Paper! Pen! I need to write this down!" I hand them to her. How do I get her away from the television? Electric cattle prod? Dynamite? Maybe I could shoot out the T.V. screen. I shake my head ruefully and slip quietly out the door. The announcer's voice trails after me. "But wait! There's more!" You got that right, Buddy, I think. With Edna, there's always more.
2007-08-05 05:56:04
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answered by Rikki 6
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My friend Anitalittlepoke was telling me she was in hormone heaven since her boyfriend Kindalikalickya said he was going to make her world better than it's ever been if she spent the night at his house.Well she got me believing it.I am still a little dazed by it all !!! Want to run that by me one more time? Wait !!!!!! Paper!!! Pen !!!! I need to be writing this down for my Christmas letter I am sending out !!!
2007-08-03 15:26:40
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answered by Diana 7
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"Do your own homework!" said Mrs. Osborne to her class, the moment after the bell rang. The teenagers filed out. She turned to her aide, Miss Williams. "Sometimes I think I'm in hormone heaven. These kids pay more attention to each other than to the blackboard."
"Did you notice the hunkalicious in the third row? I'm still a bit dazed," said Miss Williams. Miss Williams was barely out of high school herself.
"Run that by me one more time!" said Mrs Osborne, sternly.
"Um, nothing important, ma'am," said Miss Williams.
The next period's class began filing in, and Miss Williams took attendance. The bell rang.
"Class, class, today we are going to be discussing 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens. Take notes; you will be tested on this material," said Mrs. Osborne.
A big boy wearing a letterman sweater, Sean, in the back row raised his hand. "Excuse me, Mrs. Osborne, but when are we ever going to use this?"
"Expand your horizons with literature, Sean. I wanna make your world better than it's ever been," responded Mrs. Osborne.
"Well... You got me believing it," said Sean, looking a bit dubious.
Mrs. Osborne began lecturing. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom --"
From the front row came a mutter, "Paper! Pen! I need to write all of this down!" A girl was scrabbling in her backpack for stationery.
Miss Williams sighed. It was going to be another long, long day. Sometimes, she wasn't sure she wanted to become a teacher at all.
2007-08-04 08:03:42
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answered by Anonymous
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Tim: I wanna make your world better than it's ever been.
Joe: Well, you can't, because I think I'm in Hormone Heaven.
Tim: Oh My Goodness! Paper! Pen! I need to write all of this down!
Joe: Nope. I was just kidding.
Tim: Well... you got me believing it. But I'm still a bit dazed.
Joe: Then run that by me one more time.
-THE END-
2007-08-03 15:16:12
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answered by Iceman҂ 5
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Mickey: Paper ! Pen ! I need to write all of this down! Run that by me one more time. I'm still a bit dazed.
Lorraine: I wanna make your world better than it's ever been.
Mickey: Well....You got me believing it. I think I'm in Hormone Heaven.
2007-08-03 15:15:51
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answered by shazam 6
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....."wait! wait! Paper! pen! i need to write all this down"
*franticallt searches for pen*
"ok, can u run that by me one more time?"
i said, "i think im in hormone heaven so i wanna make your world better than its ever been"
"i'm still a bit dazed but i vaguelly remember someone telling me to use all these phrases"
well...u got me believing it
im not sure that constitutes as a story, more of random thoughts that dont fit together. sry
2007-08-03 15:13:32
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answered by Anonymous
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"Run that by me one more time," Josh said.
"I wanna make your world better than it's ever been," said the exotic dancer, in a sultry tone.
He shot a look to his pals. They didn't know this was going to happen when they snuck into the strip club!
"I think I'm in....Hormone Heaven," he said dreamily.
"Well, you got me believing it," Terrance said, as another dancer winked at him.
Ten minutes later, outside the strip club in a dumpster....
"Wow," Eric said.
"I'm still a bit dazed," Josh said.
"Are you the 3 boys that got beat up by the exotic dancers for sneaking into the strip club?" said a reporter.
"Ummm...." They shot each other worried looks.
"Paper! Pen! I need to write all of this down!"
2007-08-03 15:18:38
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answered by Anonymous
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The time had come. I was driving around a 16 year old car that the top was rusted and every time it rained, the paint ran down from the top of the car, over the windows. It was a sight to see. I just had a hard time justifying giving it up because, although it looked a wreck, it ran great and had been paid for many, many years ago. I really just didn't want to get in to making a payment every month for several years again.
But after a lot of teasing from my children and my husband I began to think about it. Then one day I told my 9 year old grandson that I would be picking him up from school the next afternoon. I thought he would be thrilled but instead he looked at me and said "Nana, are you going to drive your car."
I told him that I was.
He looked at me and asked if I would mind parking it at the corner and then walking to the school to get him.
That was the moment that I knew that I had to do something about my car. It was time to replace the beast. So the next morning I set out to find myself a new car.
As I pulled on to a car lot, the salesmen started pointing and laughing at my car.
When I parked the car and got out, one of the men walked over to me snickering, and asked if I needed help. I told him I was in the market for a new car.
He mumbled," It looks like you should have been a while ago."
I said," (1) Run that by me one more time."
He said," I'm here to help you in any way I can, what exactly are you looking for?"
I told him that I wanted something with some cargo space, 5 seatbelts and a stickshift. I was thinking maybe a small S.U.V. or something, but he starts showing me pickup trucks and the further we got from my car, the bigger the trucks got.
I had never even considered a pickup truck before but he was showing me one after the other and each one was a little bigger than the one before.
After showing me several trucks I told him I had to think on what I wanted before I made a decission. He had given me far too many choices and I was confused.
That's when it happened. He looked me right in the eye and he said," (3) I wanna make your world better than it's ever been." And with that he took me around a corner and showed me the most beautiful truck I had ever seen. It had four doors and an extended cab. It had the biggest bed I had ever seen. It was as blue as the sky on a cloudless day and I was stunned.
He looked at me and asked," Well, what do you think?"
I said,(4)" I'm still a bit dazed."
He started telling me that the truck had a 5.4 L. V8 powerplant with 300 peak horsepower and 365 lb-ft of torque.
I looked at him and said," can I borrow a (6) Paper! Pen! I need to write this down", as I thought to myself (2) I think I'm in Hormone Heaven.
That was it, my mind was made up. I didn't care if it was a stick shift or not. All that mattered to me at that moment was driving that beautiful piece of machinery off of that lot.
I looked him in the eye and said,"where's the papers to sign? That baby is mine."
He looked at me and said,(5)"Well.... You got me believing it."
And it was. It wasn't what I set out to buy that morning but I will tell you that my grandson just beams at me when I pull that baby in to the car loop in the afternoons to pick him up from school. So you see, the lesson I learned that day was that women can be just as influenced by the child inside as a man can.
2007-08-03 15:50:17
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answered by nana4dakids 7
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Sunshine made a desire on the taking pictures celeb. Why, i do no longer comprehend. How this all handed off, i myself would desire to no longer inform you. yet we tend responsible it on the celeb. of course, no person ever had the possibility to ask her, by using fact by ability of the time the tale had washed up on the seashores, properly, so had she. The rumors that rotated those villages have been ridiculous... that everybody ended while the captain confirmed up. He cleared each little thing up, somewhat. And senile old guy, or patchy old sailor? properly, the two way, he cooked up a competent tale. "Ah, she's a bonnie lass. properly, replaced into..." The old guy have been given a glazed look in his eyes, of course reminiscing with reference to the extra youthful Sunshine. Then, with a smack of his chapped lips, he embarked on his tale. "I knew she wasn't meant for the sea. yet her father, he tells me, 'Take her to sea, Mr. Murdock. permit's stretch her legs!' and of course, she replaced right into a fine looking lass, I wasn't approximately to coach the guy down... she would be able to't even tie a sq. knot, for heaven's sake! What good would she do on a deliver? in spite of everything, she ended up alongside the appropriate human beings, voyaging around the sea. "of course, earlier long, we hit a coarse patch of climate. The hurricane raged, the waves crashed... I gotta tell ya... i replaced into even scared myself. "I observed the lady, that night, by using fact the waves crashed against are shaky vessel and tossed us like a chunk of glide timber. I undergo in innovations questioning to myself, she's the two very ill or is making use of eco-friendly make up at the instant. properly, specific adequate, moments later she called out, 'the place're my dang nausea pills?' and stumbled around the deck on wobbling legs. "Then, basically like that, I heard the cry-- 'guy OVERBOARD!!' the finished team scoured the night for the lady. Even weeks after that, i'd frequently locate myself observing out onto the open water, a million/2-watching for to ascertain her blazing blond hair burst from the foamy rippling waves. I never did. "And that replaced into that. ultimately, the team moved on, yet i comprehend i'll constantly remember that Sunshine. basically like the old widows frequently say, 'Love can touch us one time and final for an entire life.''
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answered by ? 4
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Billy had gone to bed late, having stayed up half the night chatting on the computer, eating chips and drinking beer. He shuddered when he thought about what the women he had corresponded with would say if they could see what he REALLY looked like! He was sure they would either laugh or run away screaming. He looked at his face in the bathroom mirror and shuddered again. His acne had flared up and was worse than ever! His face was a riot of angry red pustules and craters.He was 19, when would it EVER go away? Disgusted, he decided to just go back to bed!
He tossed and turned, thinking about how acne had ruined his social life since he was 14 years old. He finally fell into a fitful slumber only to to be awoken by a soft purring voice.
"Billy, Hey Billy Boy, wake up"
She was sitting at his desk, the most unbelievably beautiful woman he had ever seen. Her golden hair fell to her waist in a tumble of curls, her curvaceous figure was poured into a skin tight red dress. She crossed her legs revealing black strappy stilletos. Billy rubbed his eyes and blinked. She was still there and now he could see a purple aura surrounding her!
"WHO are you"? he asked.
"Never mind that" She smiled."I wanna make your world better than it's ever been before but you will have to do some work too" She got up and sat on the edge of the bed bringing her aura with her. "Are you game?" She asked.
Billy was trembling. "I think I'm in Hormone Heaven" he thought to himself as his gaze fastened on her cleavage.
"Are you ready to get rid of that acne now ?" She asked leaning over to give him a better view. His throat became dry and he felt feverish. "H-H-How do I do it?"
She jumped up nearly causing him to have heart failure.
"Here's what you are to do, first your diet has to change, then...." He interrupted. "WAIT, Paper ! Pen ! I need to write all of this down!
She went through a long list of things with Billy, including diet, skincare and emotional aspects, explaining each thing as she went over it. Billy was excited!! What she was saying made allot of sense!!
"Well....You got me believing it, that is most of It. My doctor said diet had nothing to do with it, tho"
she smiled again. "Everything you put into your body, including both foods and thoughts will have an impact on the whole" Billy thought about that for a second."I'm still a bit dazed, can you run that by me one more time?" He asked.
"Sure, in simple terms, you are what you eat and you are what you think!" With that she got up and walked toward him.
"Good Luck Billy Boy" She kissed him gently and softly on the cheek and disappeared!!
Billy shook his head to clear it and looked down at the list. He would start implementing it right away!!
2007-08-04 07:30:09
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answered by Silva 6
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