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English Class
"What is the point of Shakespeare anyway?" asked Howard Weinerman angrily. As he spoke Niall Warburton, with a boxing puppet in the likeness of the Bard himself, punched Howard in the back of the head while the other 9th graders watched in amusement. "Fashionable! Courtship! Obscene! Gloomy! Birthplace! Majestic! Torture! Bandit! Fixture! Gossip! Hint! Advertising! Addiction! Mimic! Luggage! Critic! Olympian! Accused! Frugal! Secure! Countless! Impede! Invulnerable! Worthless! What the juice are those things!" At this point Howard was trying to play the idiot when in fact he knew what some of those words, if not all, meant and had used them before.
It was Howard's attempt to play the idiot that caused Randy Cunningham to roll his eyes and look out the class window. It was raining outside and such a rainstorm had not been since… yesterday. It was quite damp out and most of Randy's classmates were quite snickery as they watched Howard complain about Shakespeare while Niall had the boxing puppet punch him, which Howard was unaware of.
This was a lazy day. Pretty much the most mundane of things could bring someone's spirits up or bring them down. It was debatable whatever was going on was mundane. It seemed to be too ludicrous to called mundane.
And then Howard turned around, finally realizing what Niall was doing. Niall just kept making the puppet punch Howard. It was right in the nose that Howard was being punched.
Howard grabbed the puppet from Niall's hand, threw it to the ground and stamped on it. Niall could only stand there and stare at the puppet.
"That was a present from my grandpa!" exclaimed Niall.
"You mean Ken's dad?" asked Howard.
"Yes, my mom's dad. My dad's dad isn't the right mental state to give presents, he thinks he's Odin." Niall's mother Ulrica was Rick Finlayson's daughter from his first marriage, therefore she was Ken's Finlayson's older half-sister and thus Ken was Niall's uncle despite Ken only being two years older than Niall.
"Why Odin?"
"Because his given name is Woden."
"What does that have to do with Odin?" asked Howard.