Randy: The Gecko Who Loathed His Name
A short story, by Luke Storer. Dedicated to Kayla Storer.
Once upon a time, in a kingdom far away there lived a gecko by the name of Randy. Randy would have been a happy little gecko—eating bugs all day long crawling around on walls, hanging out with his friends, but there was a problem. The problem was his name. Randy loathed his name. All the other geckos and normal names like Gnam, Nuixay, Floon, and Huantone, but not Randy. At school all the other geckos made fun of Randy and teased him because it.
One day Randy found genie bottle in a pile of stuff at someone’s house. He tried to rub it, but his little hands stuck to the side of bottle instead of rubbing it. (due to what is called the Van der Waals force) Randy quickly darted around the room looking for a piece of cloth. He then held the cloth in his hand and rubbed the genie bottle. out of the bottle came a big powerful genie. He was quite grateful for being let out of the bottle (he had been in there for approximately 5,672,807 days, 13 hours, and 2.395 minutes—not that anyone was keeping track) to the thank Randy he asked said he would give Randy three wishes.
Randy immediately knew what to ask. “I would like you to change my name.”
“Change your name?!,” the genie asked in disbelief. “Why would you want to do that? I think the name, ‘Randy’ is totally wicked.”
“Really?” asked Randy.
“I sure do,” said the genie.
From that day Randy the gecko liked his name, and he and his new friend the genie became best friends.
~The End~
If you would like to read about Van der Waals force, you visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_der_Waals_force
If you would like to read about an invention using this force, check out this web page http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3785 I wonder where I could get some of this stuff. It sounds like it is at least as good as duct tape.
Responding to Comments:
Christy: glad you are enjoying the descriptions
Heather: great idea… I think I will ask Mr. Schelcht (but I will probably wait until school starts so that I can ask him in person. Thanks for leaving a comment on my blog… I do feel very loved.
-Luke
Once upon a time, in a kingdom far away there lived a gecko by the name of Randy. Randy would have been a happy little gecko—eating bugs all day long crawling around on walls, hanging out with his friends, but there was a problem. The problem was his name. Randy loathed his name. All the other geckos and normal names like Gnam, Nuixay, Floon, and Huantone, but not Randy. At school all the other geckos made fun of Randy and teased him because it.
One day Randy found genie bottle in a pile of stuff at someone’s house. He tried to rub it, but his little hands stuck to the side of bottle instead of rubbing it. (due to what is called the Van der Waals force) Randy quickly darted around the room looking for a piece of cloth. He then held the cloth in his hand and rubbed the genie bottle. out of the bottle came a big powerful genie. He was quite grateful for being let out of the bottle (he had been in there for approximately 5,672,807 days, 13 hours, and 2.395 minutes—not that anyone was keeping track) to the thank Randy he asked said he would give Randy three wishes.
Randy immediately knew what to ask. “I would like you to change my name.”
“Change your name?!,” the genie asked in disbelief. “Why would you want to do that? I think the name, ‘Randy’ is totally wicked.”
“Really?” asked Randy.
“I sure do,” said the genie.
From that day Randy the gecko liked his name, and he and his new friend the genie became best friends.
~The End~
If you would like to read about Van der Waals force, you visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_der_Waals_force
If you would like to read about an invention using this force, check out this web page http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3785 I wonder where I could get some of this stuff. It sounds like it is at least as good as duct tape.
Responding to Comments:
Christy: glad you are enjoying the descriptions
Heather: great idea… I think I will ask Mr. Schelcht (but I will probably wait until school starts so that I can ask him in person. Thanks for leaving a comment on my blog… I do feel very loved.
-Luke
2 Comments:
That is so fascinating! Not the story, although the story was grand. The Van der Waals force and the thing about geckos and the tape. What thoroughly marvelous stuff. What a thoroughly marvelous force. And what a thoroughly marvelous beast that can use it.
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Anonymous, at 11:25 AM
Luke...have been reading your blog for about an hour...fascinating reading...so glad to hear your summer is going so well! Haven't checked it for a couple weeks, so had some catching up to do...take care and have a great Fourth of July wherever you are!
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