File : ABE-ANAN.TXT Author : Wolfman BBS : The Banana Republic BBS ------------------------ 1863 a Gettysburg Banana ------------------------ Fourscore and seven afternoon snacks ago our foreBananas brought forth on this BBS a new Republic, conceived in Bananahood, and dedicated to the proposition that all Bananas are created equal (under Barri). Now we are engaged in a great war against Banana eaters and the Black Tarantulas testing whether that the Republic, or any lunch so conceived and so well ripened, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of this BBS as a final resting-place for those Bananas who here gave their skins so that others may live and do normal Banana things. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow this BBS. The brave Bananas, living and eaten, who laid down their skins here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the uneaten rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which those Bananas who surrended the white mushy bits in the centre here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honoured eaten we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave their last full measure of fruitfulness - that we here highly resolve that these eaten shall not have been eaten because there was nothing else in the friut basket - that this Republic, under Barri, shall have a new birth of divine dictatorship of the Bananas, by the Bananas, for the Bananas, shall not overripen and so perish from the earth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUTHOR : Wolfman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to the WORLD by The Banana Republic BBS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ