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		<title>WTF?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  TheWordless.com 2442 N.W. Market St. #128 Seattle, WA  98107 silent@wordless.us   Craig Ferguson c/o CBS (hoc-tew)   If someone else ended up with your RockWacker, they can’t enjoy the wondrous juju that comes with until they get it reregistered.   Or do unsolicited six foot tubes purporting to contain miracle staffs automatically go to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rockwacker8.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8220117&amp;post=42&amp;subd=rockwacker8&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-family:&amp;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;">T</span>heWordless.com<br />
</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:&amp;">2442 N.W. Market St. #128<br />
</span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:&amp;">Seattle</span><span style="font-family:&amp;">, WA  98107<br />
</span></span><span style="font-family:&amp;"><a href="mailto:silent@wordless.us"><span style="color:#0000ff;font-size:small;">silent@wordless.us</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&amp;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&amp;"><span style="font-size:small;">Craig Ferguson</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&amp;"><span style="font-size:small;">c/o CBS (hoc-tew)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&amp;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&amp;"><span style="font-size:small;">If someone else ended up with your RockWacker, they can’t enjoy the wondrous juju that comes with until they get it reregistered.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&amp;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&amp;"><span style="font-size:small;">Or do unsolicited six foot tubes purporting to contain miracle staffs automatically go to the incinerator?</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&amp;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&amp;"><span style="font-size:small;">Enclosed are a copy of the letter and <a href="http://rockwacker8.wordpress.com/certificate/">certificate</a> that accompanied that marvelous contrivance, as if you could forget.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&amp;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&amp;"><span style="font-size:small;">May you Wack in love truth and beauty.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&amp;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:&amp;">P.S.  Congratulations on the awkward pause.</span></p>
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		<title>Under New Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TheWordless.com 2442 N.W. Market St. #128 Seattle, WA  98107 silent@wordless.us Craig Ferguson c/o CBS (hoc-tew) Dear Sir: Congratulations.  You are the bequeathee of RockWacker #8 from Melville’s iconic character.    Your certificate is enclosed.  If you assign your RockWacker to someone else, sign it over to them and send a copy to TheWordless for registration [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rockwacker8.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8220117&amp;post=11&amp;subd=rockwacker8&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:right;">TheWordless.com<br />
2442 N.W. Market St. #128<br />
Seattle, WA  98107<br />
<a href="mailto:silent@wordless.us">silent@wordless.us</a></p>
<p>Craig Ferguson<br />
c/o CBS (hoc-tew)</p>
<p>Dear Sir:</p>
<p>Congratulations.  You are the bequeathee of RockWacker #8 from Melville’s iconic character.</p>
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<p> Your certificate is enclosed.  If you assign your RockWacker to someone else, sign it over to them and send a copy to TheWordless for registration purposes.</p>
<p> Lies have been perpetrated at <a href="http://www.rockwackers.com">RockWackers.com</a>, and at <a href="http://rockwacker8.wordpress.com/">http://rockwacker8.wordpress.com/</a>, which is now your blog.  Your username is “XXXX” and your password is “XXXX.”  Your email address is “<a href="mailto:rockwacker8@live.com,">rockwacker8@live.com,</a>” and your password there is likewise “XXXX.”</p>
<p> If you don’t change it, nefarious characters may mess around there, possibly pissing you off.</p>
<p> P.S.  A few hints:</p>
<p> <span style="text-decoration:underline;">When walking</span> with your RockWacker:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Put your hand UP through the loop: <img class="size-medium wp-image-13  aligncenter" title="RWUp" src="http://rockwacker8.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/rwup.jpg?w=300&#038;h=225" alt="RWUp" width="300" height="225" /></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wrap hand around both strap and staff, for support without getting a grip:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14" title="RWWrap" src="http://rockwacker8.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/rwwrap.jpg?w=300&#038;h=225" alt="RWWrap" width="300" height="225" /></p>
<p>In treacherous terrain try two-handed:     </p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-15  aligncenter" title="2hand" src="http://rockwacker8.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/2hand.jpg?w=262&#038;h=300" alt="2hand" width="262" height="300" /></p>
<p>Want hands-free?  Tow it like a tail, baffling your trackers:</p>
<p> <img class="size-medium wp-image-16 alignleft" title="tow" src="http://rockwacker8.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/tow.jpg?w=300&#038;h=225" alt="tow" width="300" height="225" /></p>
<p>When <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Wacking</span>, observe these precautions:</p>
<p> Likely waterspouts dictate donning raingear: </p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-31    aligncenter" title="Raingear" src="http://rockwacker8.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/raingear1.jpg?w=300&#038;h=225" alt="Raingear" width="300" height="225" /></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Possible chips and splinters demand goggles and gloves:</p>
<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-18 alignleft" title="G&amp;G" src="http://rockwacker8.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/gg.jpg?w=300&#038;h=225" alt="G&amp;G" width="300" height="225" /></p>
<p>Lightning danger (blasphemy level) unknown: suggest lightning rod on hardhat:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-22  aligncenter" title="rodjpg" src="http://rockwacker8.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/rodjpg1.jpg?w=173&#038;h=300" alt="rodjpg" width="173" height="300" /></p>
<p>May you wack in love, truth, and beauty:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-20     aligncenter" title="Wack" src="http://rockwacker8.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/wack.jpg?w=300&#038;h=264" alt="Wack" width="300" height="264" /></p>
<p> <a href="http://www.wordless.us/100.html">RockWackers.com</a></p>
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		<title>Still Hunting Moby Dick</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, July 22, 2006   Still Hunting Moby Dick Queequeg shipless; Lost without Ahab. He wades miles of mud To where the whale may come: To Shi Shi, A beach sacred to the Makah (A whaling people). He stands poised in surf, The fire-hardened tip of his RockWacker cocked, Awaiting the whale. Queequeg waits. Queequeg [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rockwacker8.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8220117&amp;post=1&amp;subd=rockwacker8&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Saturday, July 22, 2006</div>
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<p>Queequeg shipless;<br />
Lost without Ahab.</p>
<p>He wades miles of mud<br />
To where the whale may come:<br />
To Shi Shi,<br />
A beach sacred to the Makah<br />
(A whaling people).</p>
<p>He stands poised in surf,<br />
The fire-hardened tip of his <a href="http://www.wordless.us/100.html">RockWacker</a> cocked,<br />
Awaiting the whale.</p>
<p>Queequeg waits.</p>
<p>Queequeg waits, and wills the whale.</p>
<p>And waits.</p>
<p>Perhaps only in powerful imagination,<br />
The called whale comes,<br />
And Queequeg casts his magical harpoon.</p>
<p>Then he <a href="http://www.wordless.us/109.html">gives it away</a>.</p>
<p><a title="RockWackers.com" href="http://www.wordless.us/100.html">Rockwackers.com</a></p>
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