The Day Everybody and Nobody Showed Up
Roger has set up a new pop-up, the Somebody-or-Nobody Booth, for customers who would rather not give a name. Fill in the missing pronouns and see how the mystery morning goes.
Roger is squaring up the ledger. Finish the slip and he'll read the whole mystery morning back, pronoun by pronoun.
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On opening morning, Roger unrolled a banner for his newest pop-up: "The Somebody-or-Nobody Booth: no name required!"
" is welcome here," Roger announced, "and gets turned away." The first customer would not give a name, so Roger grinned. "Perfect. fits right in."
Then the line wandered off at once, and the booth went quiet. "Hello? Somebody? Anybody?" Roger called. Nobody answered. He muttered, "I wanna function by myself! Don't wanna need nobody's help!" But a booth with no customers sells .
Nelson strolled by with a clipboard. "You need a real noun behind every fuzzy pronoun," he said. Roger sighed, because Nelson was right, and usually was.
The platypus waddled up, the one customer with a real name. "Finally, somebody definite," Roger said, and rang up. The crowd drifted back. " wants a deal!" they cried, and Roger shouted, " is half price!"
" is having more fun than me," Roger crowed. "Well, almost ." He counted the coins, and every last one was . "And can argue with a clean ledger," he added, waving Nelson off.
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