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The blood, sweat and tears of many indentured servants went into the making of this story, so you'd better appreciate it!

Actually, it was a whole lot of writers who lent us their talents to put this tale together and we're grateful that each of them was able to take time out of their busy schedules to have such a great time!  Some of them are everyday columnists who write during all hours of the day, others are the cartoonists and web designers behind some of your favorite animations and web shows, and some are just complete strangers whom we pretty much begged until they gave in...and there's nothing wrong with that!   Besides, just look what came of it all...

Please take a few minutes to visit the websites of some of these fine individuals, whom without we wouldn't have had such an adventure - thank you all!!!

Kim Burke
Glenwood, AR
appearing courtesy of Incidents & Accidents

Possibly the funnest thing to come out of Arkansas (not counting the whole Clinton-thing), Kim Burke's Incidents & Accidents help us to make light of the toils life throws our way, because life's too short for ordinary idiots.

Jerry Conroy
West Palm Beach, FL
appearing courtesy of The Writer's Hood

Born and raised in New Jersey, Jerry is a "transplanted" Florida resident since 1985.  He's currently a humor columnist for The Writer's Hood web site, who kindly humors him in return on a monthly basis!

Matt Danielsson
Weed, CA
appearing courtesy of Demokrazy comics

Matt has a day job in the editorial team of a Tech publisher, but spends his spare time cartooning and writing considerably funnier stuff. At least he thinks so, so please let him live with his comfortable little illusion if you disagree.  He spends most of his time watching Jackie Chan movies and eating nachos, but not necessarily in that order.

Erik Deckers
Syracuse, IN
appearing courtesy of Laughing Stalk

Erik is in sales and marketing by day, and by night he's a superhero!  Okay, he's really just a father of two, husband of one, and dog owner of two more.  He's the only guy in the house, which isn't so bad as long as the TV in his study is permanently glued to football games and woodworking shows.

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Jenn Dlugos
Weymouth, MA
appearing courtesy of DayGlo Productions

She's always been around the comedy realm whether it's doing standup comedy or writing comedy. Having written two books when she was 20: How to Survive a Small Town Without Being Trampled by a Cow and Kill The Cupid, Jenn is now in pre-production of her scathing comedy flick Lipstick.

Zach Everson
Falls Church, VA
appearing courtesy of ZachEverson.com

He spends his time spreading apple seeds except every other Wednesday night when he paints sheds...

Greg Gagliardi
Runnemede, NJ
appearing courtesy of Progressive Revelations

Greg is a high school teacher who writes on the side.  The left side, the right side -- it really doesn't matter.

Matthew Gatesy
Gaylord, MI
appearing courtesy of Just Laugh magazine

Matt is currently blundering his way through college at Ferris State University.  Matt is an avid hockey fan.  His insights into the game can soon be read in USA College Hockey as the FSU correspondent.  It is also believed that Matt does something for this magazine, but we haven't quite figured out what that is yet...

Angela Gillaspie
Central Alabama
appearing courtesy of SouthernAngel.com

Angela, the Queen of Kudzu, is a freelance writer, programmer/analyst, and proud Southern Momma. When she's not in front of the computer, she's on a soccer or football field, in the kitchen, in the garden, or at the crick fishing. She resides in Alabama with her husband and four kids.

Steve Hofstetter
Cambridge, MA
appearing courtesy of ObservationalHumor.com

Steve Hofstetter is the author of "Observational Humor," a syndicated column found all over the internet, and in bathrooms everywhere. He recently published his first book, entitled Student Body Shots: A Sarcastic Look at the Best 4-6 Years of Your Life. Originally from New York, Steve now resides in Boston, where he refuses to use "wicked" as an adverb.

Laura Jimenez
Long Beach, CA
appearing courtesy of Hear Me OUT!

I am one of the few natives of California, this great nation that I call home. I've been writing for about six years now and have enjoyed huge mediocrity. My book, Hear Me OUT! can be found on Amazon.com and many of the finer garage sales in the greater Bay Area.

Mary Ladd
Los Angeles, CA
appearing courtesy of Ape Culture

After climbing from the tragic depths of slow track Reading class in 5th grade, Mary Ladd finagled a degree in English from University of Missouri - St. Louis.  Her published poems have appeared in Natural Bridge, Tintern Abbey, Eye Dialect, Switched-on Gutenberg, Literal Latte and Ape Culture, the online humor magazine she co-edits with Julie Wiskirchen.

Barry Lank
Philadelphia, PA
appearing courtesy of Barry Lank's Teeny Tiny Brain

Barry was born in southern California, where the chief characteristic of the local terrain was that it tended to catch on fire. He was a stand-up comedian in San Francisco for many years, where he also worked as a stevedore and operated a forklift and various types of cranes. He is now an editorial writer and columnist in southern New Jersey, where he operates a forklift and various types of cranes.

Don Laursen
Grand Rapids, MI
appearing courtesy of Just Laugh magazine

Don has been a computer geek ever since his family got their first computer when he was eight.  Since then, he's expanded his horizons to include video games, movies and books, and yet he still finds the time to lend his knowledge as Just Laugh's resident movie critic every three weeks...

Mad Dog
San Francisco, CA
appearing courtesy of Mad Dog Weekly

Mad Dog has been writing a weekly humor column for the past six years, which has appeared in newspapers and magazines including the Chicago Tribune, NY Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle, and SilverKris (Singapore Airlines in-flight magazine).

Neil Matz
Tracy, CA
appearing courtesy of InkTank.com

Neil was born and raised by a pack of wild cows. After graduating cum laude from Harvard, he became a car mechanic. He is survived by his wife Ceci and two children (Ethan and Syd).

Keith O'Brien
New Providence, NJ
appearing courtesy of Sir Keith O'Brien

Despite the pervasive rumors that seem to suggest the contrary, I have never seen Citzen Kane.  I stand before as a raconteur, iconoclast, peripatetic, pathetic and meager writer. 

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Bert O'Higgins
South Bend, IN
appearing courtesy of Just Laugh magazine

Appearing out of the woodwork to provide funny for the masses, Bert finds most of his free time is taken up by personally testing the alcohol supplies of every bar in the greater-Bend area for whatever bad things could happen to said alcohol at 2:00 AM. It's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it...

Greg Ragan
Marquette, MI
appearing courtesy of Just Laugh magazine

Greg Ragan is an avid movie fanatic and college student who lives in the frigid icebox that is Northern Michigan. He enjoys playing poker with polar bears and harassing penguins in his 'spare time...'

Joel Schneier
Northern Virginia
appearing courtesy of Acid Logic

Joel is a senior in high school and the co-editor of his
school's literary arts magazine.  Also a big fan of Chuck
Palahniuk's work and William Burroughs', and a huge At the Drive-In fan.

Scott Sevener
Gaylord, MI
appearing courtesy of Just Laugh magazine

Scott is a man who believes that "If you're not living on the edge," then maybe you need to listen to the song one more time!  In addition to being an aspiring diver and rock musician, he also does this humor thing from time to time.

Oh yeah, and he was also the editor behind this project, too...

Linda Sharp
Frisco, TX
appearing courtesy of Sanity Central

Linda Sharp is an internationally recognized author and columnist who writes regularly on the joyous and frustrating worlds of parenting and marriage.  Her work wraps around the globe to appear in print publications from Maine to Malaysia, as well as across the web.

Barry Smith
Norristown, PA
appearing courtesy of InkTank.com

Born in the East and settled in the West, Barry has become a sensation on both coasts for his sintilating chocolate chipped beef cookies.  Oh, and he also does some cartooning on the side.

Jason Tanamor
Davenport, IA
appearing courtesy of Jason Tanamor Online

Jason Tanamor is an award winning writer/comedian.  He is the author of For All the Wrong Reasons, in which the proceeds for the book go to Habitat for Humanity.

Julie Wiskirchen
Woodside, NY
appearing courtesy of Ape Culture

Since earning an MFA in fiction writing from Sarah Lawrence College four years ago, Julie has worked as an executive assistant at a company that looks the other way when she writes articles for the web zine she co-edits,
Ape Culture (recently named one of the web's top humor sites by Yahoo! Internet Life magazine).

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