There I was, facing a new year bright with promise, the possibility of strong economic growth, fiscal responsibility in governement and industry, blows struck against those that would hold us in terror, in short a year to eagerly await.
Alas, it was not to be, word reached me that Doug Herring was permitted to breed, truly the first sign of the apocalypse, a harbinger of the doom of man and the rise of the dire forces of evil and villainy. Alas, is this to be the Hal Herring fortold by Nostradamus to destroy mankind in this, his most dire Quatrain?:
"That which will live without having any sense,
its artifice will come to be fatally injured:
For Autun, Chalon, Langres and the two Sens,
Hal of the Fish will cause much evil."
It is obvious that the Hal of the Fish reference would be to the foretold birth of the devourer of souls, Hal Herring!
Alas, Babylon, not even your towers will resist the rain of fire from the skies. The position of Bagdad, in the heart of ancient Babylon combined with the rain of fire surely to commence as coincides with the birth of Hal of the Fish would portend the end of days!
This combined with the clear doomsday events such as the Jets winning the AFC East and the California "Angels" (read FALLEN ANGELS!) winning the World Series would surely lead us all into the firey pits of Hell!
I knew that I must repent, immediately, or I too would be cast down into internal torment upon the end of all mortal things!
But then I heard his name was not Hal, but was instead Aiden, and knew that the foretold doom was not yet upon us. So instead of repenting I made with a great gluttonous consumption of beer and BBQ ribs whilst playing MechAssault on my XBox.
Fond wishes to Doug and family,
, no I have been saying a(long)-den. I have been wrong once in 1979 so it is time again real soon...
