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Well, welcome to stem stories, Mr Ewing.
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The day they dropped Cats over Borneo by Charlotte Pum
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All rents It's an interesting title The day they dropped
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Katzover Borneo We're gonna images.
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Does that conjure up in your head Sridhar story and
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find out what happened the day they parachuted cats over
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Borneo. A drama A book of ecology Now this is
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read aloud is actually written as a play But the
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characters are a little bit different than what we normally
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think of as actors on a stage.
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A play by Charlotte Pomerance Scenery by Jose A.
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Rogo I am the ill island of Borneo, where the
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farmer or farmer Ben's low Ben's low.
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I have honey bears, rhinos and tiger cats, great falcons,
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flamingos and foxy face bats.
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I have gold and quick silver, rubber and rice cane,
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sugar and spice, but not everything.
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Nice. A land of harsh ridges and savage monsoon of
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jungle as dark as the dark of the moon, land
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of thundering rains and earthquakes and heat, where their farmers
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life is more bitter than sweet land of mosquitoes, which
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carry with ease the dreaded malaria scourge and disease.
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What kind of island do you think Borneo is based
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on our picture?
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What does it tell us about the climate and ecosystem?
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Were you?
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I love images in a story that help illustrate and
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enhance our learning.
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I am malaria dreaded disease I caused man to take
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and to shake and to freeze.
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300 year are due sees one million.
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I kill with remarkable ease.
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But I'm not the big killer.
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I used to be in the good old days before
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DDT because that stuff kills mosquitoes.
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One to three.
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What this DDT is What do you think this image
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is telling us about what's going on in Borneo?
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What does it tell you about this story?
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My name is Dyke Loro.
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Did the Thal try chloroform sane?
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Which you'd have to admit is a heck of a
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name. But perhaps some of you have heard tell of
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me by my well known initials which are DDT of
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Iran, Joe Chlorine insecticide.
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I come in a powder or liquefied doesn't sound good.
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I'm deaf to mosquitoes, outsider and outside or inside.
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I was brought here by copter to Borneo, where the
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farmer, now helpful bends low.
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Ben's low.
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My job is to kill that cruel killer of man.
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A worthy and wise on edge of logical plan sounds
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like a good plan to spray the island killing mosquitoes.
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What do you think?
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Do you think this is a good idea?
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What are your thoughts on?
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This were the mosquitoes who roam day and night, bringing
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death to the farmers with one small bite.
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We like the farmers hut.
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It buzzes with life.
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There's a farmer, of course, his kids and his wife.
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The caterpillars chew on the roof beans there, while the
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gecko's or lizards room everywhere.
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There are lots of cockroaches and always some cats who
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pounce on the liver and scare away rats.
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All of us are busy, busy looking for food.
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Sometimes we eat each other, which may seem rather crude.
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But imagine yourself in that hot, and I bet you
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would rather eat someone than find yourself at now.
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Suddenly, Sepp, there is no place to hide, for they
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sprayed all the huts with insecticide, and that's the end
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of our tail.
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Or is it?
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What do you see going on in our picture?
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How many insects and people and things can you identify
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that? May I'll be related are connected.
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Were the cockroaches home loving pest In some people's huts
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were unwelcome guests.
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When we all get sprayed with the ddgs d d
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d d d T stuff, the mosquitoes got killed.
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Not us.
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We're too tough.
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We just swallowed hard and kept right on a crawl
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in. Despite the rude comments and vicious name calling, people
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are so anti Roach, he says.
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What do you think's gonna happen next?
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I love what illustrations tell us were the hungry caterpillars
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of Borneo, where the farmers also hungry, bends low.
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Ben's low.
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We live in the roof beans, eating and hatching.
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We make all our meals out of the roof beams
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and thatching Nash Nash Nibble, nibble, Munch, Munch, Munch.
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It could happen for breakfast, supper, high tea and lunch.
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Our life is a pleasant of green tea and roses,
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except when the lizards go poke in their noses than
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Nash Nash.
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Nibble, nibble, munch, Munch, munch the lizards.
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Eight are our cousins for lunch.
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Those three legged reptiles ruin our meals.
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What? That's getting me.
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Oh, look, what are pictures telling us what are the
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gecko's eating?
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Looks like they're eating those caterpillars that are eating the
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roofs of the huts were the lizards or gecko's by
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name to the father.
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Farmers were useful, were charming, were team over the floors
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and walls and roof beams with Rome of every tropical
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home. Sweet home for us, Kakarak cockroaches are scrumptious to
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eat, almost as tasty as Caterpillar Me?
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Well, it looks like the gecko's are everywhere in our
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home. Then the copter sprayed and we lost our appetite.
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Now we laze around the days we snooze the bombing
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night For every roach we ate, though they do taste
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yummy as D d D d d t to our
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own little lizard tummy.
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It makes us tiny, makes our tiny nervous list system
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sluggish and slow.
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We're Gecko's leaping lizards.
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Got no get up and go.
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So the lizards are getting sick from eating cockroaches and
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the caterpillars is true.
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We're not dying of DDT, but a slow gecko ain't
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no gecko.
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As the caterpillars can plainly see way watched them eating
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roof beams like there's no tomorrow.
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While we lizards hold our tummies and pain and sorrow
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get all these people now affected by the DDT from
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springing of the mosquitoes were the cats on the island
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of Borneo, where the farmers who love us been low.
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Ben's low eating all those lizards, or gecko's by name,
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is turning out to be signed by dying shame, because
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those lizards are poisoned from head to tail to head
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and killing those lizards is killing us dead.
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We poor cats got a massive overdose.
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What's left you say sob except audio's.
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One more animal has come to be affected by the
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DDT cats because they're eating the gecko's, which are poisoned,
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are dying where the rivers and rivers of Borneo we
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watched little men come and go, Come and go.
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We watch him kill mosquitoes with pesticides.
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See the Roaches poison, though not one cockroach died till
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the hungry lizards ate them one by one by one.
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What a feast they had.
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It seems like a good clean fun.
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But every roach they ate, though they did taste yummy,
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added Dini, T to their little lizard tummy.
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When the lizards were full with deadly pesticide, they felt
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pretty punchy, though not one lizard died till the hungry
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cats devoured them one by one by one.
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But what a feast they had.
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It seemed like good, clean fun, but every Liz that
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they ate, though it did taste yummy.
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Killed the cats by poisoning their DDT dd toxic tummy.
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Now this poor old island is steeped in poison error
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Our waters to our poison little man.
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Take care, DDT!
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What's happening with the rains and the rivers were the
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rats on the island of Borneo.
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We never had it so good, Heidi Home When the
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cats who had swallowed the gecko's lay dying we crawled
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in by thousands from forest Outlying This can't be good
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When the farmer saws they raised in English Cry rats
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bring plague, fly in help or we shall surely die
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Help us!
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Men of science Help us kill the rats for the
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dd dd t you sprayed has killed all our cats
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Borneo for rent we sang in choir, please.
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Within when the cats die off with DDT, we rats
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move in.
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So because there's no cats, guess who's coming in from
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the forest where the copters who just flew in thousands
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of cats and shooting them down on the army of
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rats on the plague threaten island of Borneo, a bright
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green jewell in the blue see below so they actually
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helicoptered and parachuted cats onto the island once we came
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with the DDT.
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Now we came in with cats once we sprayed mosquitoes.
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Now we'll fix the rats.
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Looks like no one really thought the whole thing thing
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through. Soon all the cats and rats will have a
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deadly rendezvous.
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How do you think they may have brought in those
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cats? I don't think they really just had him sitting
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in the helicopter.
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What do you think?
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Where the para pussycats they parachuted down on every cat
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killed, wrap filled little tap village in town on the
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dead cat debt dread Rat island of Borneo where the
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farmers strictly catalyst bends low, low, low Is this how
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you thought that maybe they got did it?
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That this would be a good time?
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Or at the end of our story, do a little
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research and see how you actually got the cats on
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Borneo? When we put para pussycats were dropped to the
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ground. What a feast we had There were rats all
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around. Everywhere we looked, there were rats and rats and
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rats pursued by our elite course of para pussy counts.
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We chased our rats for day till almost the most
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of them fled.
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And those who didn't run fast enough.
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Where? Beef?
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Bam, Ted, I think the cat's had a good time.
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What do you think The good farmers gave us a
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ticker tape parade.
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They heaped us with ivory, gold and silver brocade.
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They said they would grant us the most fantastic wish.
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So we asked them for 500 kettles of fish.
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We were wind.
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We were died.
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We slept in king size beds till we heard a
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strange cracking just over our heads.
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What do you think that crash is going today?
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Make a guess before we move on, then you're gonna
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need to continue in the next section of our story.
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Cats parachuted over Bar Borneo to find out what tune
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into the next.