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                   Sloths over Ethiopia #0007 $$ May 21, 1996
         Sloths over Ethiopia is a dto [doomed to obscurity] production

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  "what's that in your hand?"
  "uhm, it's silly putty."
  "silly putty?  really@#!?  lemme see it@!"
  "okay.."

  "this is so cool@!"
  "well, it's.."
  "look at this@!  i can make faces out of it and these fingernail clippers@!"
  "heh, that's.."
  "this is SO COOL.  i need my own silly putty."
  "er.."
  "lookie@!  he's making an EVIL FACE.  he's EVIL.  isn't that CUTE!?"
  "i guess so.."
  "eeeEE!E@!  look at this face@!!"
  "i'll be right back.."
  "okay.  ooOoOoo@!  his nose@!"

  he sat on the toilet, vaguely confused.  she was spending far more time with
  his silly putty than she was with him, sort of.  it was driving him up the
  wall.  sure, it was a cute thing, and maybe it made him appealing to girls
  when he had cute things for them to play with, but was this really the case?  how
  was he to really understand?

  "you sure took a while.  look what i did now@!"
  "that's pretty neat."
  "i know@!  this is so cool@!"
  "what do you want to do now?"
  "oh, i don't know.  i'm done eating.  let's go make out or something."
  "er, okay@!"

  he decided he'd bring silly putty more often, maybe.

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      in fact, there still does not exist a Sloths over Ethiopia web page.

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                   Sloths over Ethiopia #0007 $$ May 21, 1996
         Sloths over Ethiopia is a dto [doomed to obscurity] production

                 Sloths over Ethiopia welcomes all submissions.
        Why should we be picky when we're so blatantly fucking terrible?

     All Sloths over Ethiopia releases will be less than 5k, for no reason.

         For those of you that don't know, 5k = 5,120 bytes.  teehee@#!

    You may reach us at Sloths over Ethiopia by mailing doomed@voicenet.com,
         the official address of dto [doomed to obscurity] productions.

       Check out other releases by dto [doomed to obscurity] productions,
    which are guaranteed to be better than anything in Sloths over Ethiopia,
                      which is just pretty fucking stupid.

              This piece, however, is maybe much better than most.

     Sloths over Ethiopia is dedicated to the memory of the late Soe Naing.

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