Monday, March 16, 2009

The 5t Wizard of Oz - the narrative begins;

In researching the official Abbey Road Studios soundtrack to 'The Wizard of Oz,' the 5t listener of the records (see more at 'auditor of the minutes,' in organizations possessing bureaucratic systems) has come up with an observation. The easiest way to verify the soundtrack for yourself is to use the 'Redbook' format, available commercially as "The Dark Side of The Moon," album, by Pink Floyd. By starting the music at the second roar, just as all official rumors specify, the listener (a fanatical disciple of the coaching legend 'Yogi Berra,' who once said "you can observe a lot, by watching,") was able to observe that the Land of OZ is not in Texas. Already intrigued by the prospect of tourism to OZ, he noticed that the main interstate artery to OZ was made of yellow bricks. In pursuit of archeological evidence that these bricks might have come from the same source as the historic Great Wall of China (still visible from space,) he decided to go and get one from the documented road in question. It seemed most logical to start in Abilene, and after verifying from the reader of the tomes that Abilene was the end of the line for cattle drives, he took off to investigate. After an exhausting exhaustive search in Abilene, he was not able to find the turn off, and so he used the mathematical idea of borrowing a construct. If he could not find the beginning of the yellow brick road, he argued, the other way to find the yellow brick road would be to go to the end and work his way back. He didn't have to search for long before he found an Australian at a nearby restaurant who was generously willing not only to share compass bearings with him for the search, but take him there in person, so great was his affection for the place. Imagine the listener's surprise when talk turned to the yellow brick road itself! Not only did the Aussie not know where in OZ to look for it, they were in Abilene to start with, and the quickest WAY to OZ ought to be the Yellow Brick road, a thoroughfare he had never even been ON! The mutual puzzlement was compounded when they contemplated together that the Aussie had FLOWN from OZ to Texas in a plane. This implied taking a "great circle" route that locals call "as the crow flies," and he had not noticed it from the air. Suspicious of the Aussie's veracity, the 5t (himself an experienced liar,) asked if the Aussie even knew where to find Australia. The Aussie took offense, and pointed out that all the 5t had to do was take an "as the crow flies" route as far south as he could go, turn north and go to the nearest island, and he'd find it. This satisfied them both, and they shook hands and made up over a Fosters.

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