The Remarkable Fools Letter

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my evening with the smooth operator

my evening with the smooth operator

on exploring regular routes in irregular ways

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Jim Dalling
Jan 12, 2025
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The Remarkable Fools Letter
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my evening with the smooth operator
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He's a smooth operator
Smooth operator
Smooth operator
Smooth operator

Read this version of the foolsletter oozing smoothness.

Get so smooth you’re slimy.

We move in space with minimum waste and maximum joy

As you do, picture yourself as a young Christian Slayter.

Pump up the volume days.

You’ve a copy of Lenny Bruce’s How to Talk Dirty and Influence People next to your turntable. Pretend really hard that you’re cool. Pretend so hard that you convince yourself for a moment that you really are much cooler than you think.

Let the moment drip through you.

Put Sade on your headphones.

Take your time. Let the music work it’s way down into ya’.

No place for beginners or sensitive hearts

All right, got the picture?

Good.

Let’s begin.

When sentiment is left to chance
No place to be ending but somewhere to start1

(don’t read the stuff in brackets in the gravely voice - make this more David Tenant as Doctor Who, or as Bendelswitch Dingerodd as Sherlock but then of course once the brackets close, go …

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