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           Hi.  
           
          For those of you who don't know me, I'm William Shatner's Kidney 
          stone, the one he sold on E-bay to Goldenpalace.com, the same outfit 
          that bought the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese Sandwich. I guess that 
          makes me just about the most famous kidney stone ever, and I guess 
          that's why I feel I needed to come forward and make this statement. 
          
            
          First of 
          all, I had nothing to do with the deal, I wasn't involved in the 
          planning, and frankly I'm a little embarrassed at all the attention. 
          I'm just a kidney stone, a mass of crystals, mostly calcium, that 
          separated out of Bill's urine and formed into a mass on the walls of 
          one of his Kidneys. I don't even know which one. I'm on the larger 
          size for a Kidney Stone but nowhere near the record, which was 1.6 
          Kilograms! Now that was a stone.  
           
          My point is, I'm nothing out of the ordinary. Every year a large 
          number of Kidney stones get surgically pulled into the light of day. 
          How many? Who knows, because honestly, who cares? Until now. I'm 
          pretty sure no one has paid much of anything for a Kidney Stone prior 
          to me, let alone $25,000.00. Read it and weep, my friend. That's more 
          than you make in a year at Orange Julius. What, did they think I was 
          SHARON Stone? 'Cause if GoldenPalace wants a quick shot of my Beaver, 
          it's gonna cost even more! I'm kidding. I'm a Kidney Stone, I don't 
          have a Beaver.  
           
          Anyway, as the first Kidney Stone ever to be in the Limelight, I have 
          a few things I feel I need to say. Actually, it's not Limelight, it's 
          formaldehyde. No, no, kidding again. It's alcohol. No one uses 
          formaldehyde anymore, all specimens are preserved in alcohol these 
          days, don't ask, I don't know why, I'm a Kidney Stone. 
           
          Okay, first of all I did not see a penny of that money and neither did 
          Shatner; it all went to Habitat for Humanity. Look, GoldenPalace paid 
          Three Grand more for the Virgin Mary cheese Sandwich, and she has a 
          BITE taken out of her! And frankly? I share a trailer with the 
          so-called holy sandwich, and okay, maybe there's something there, 
          maybe, but it looks just as much like pre-plastic surgery Greta Van 
          Sustern as it does the fucking Virgin Mary. Christ for all I know it's 
          a miraculous appearance of Sharon Stone's Beaver on a cheese toast! 
          All I'm saying is it's quite obvious these GoldenPalace guys are 
          fucking nuts. It's not my fault they shelled out twenty-five grand for 
          a damn Kidney Stone, I didn't get the money, it went to a very 
          respectable charity! I have not 'gone Hollywood', I am not 'stuck up', 
          I never met Paris Hilton, I am a Kidney Stone. 
           
          Incidentally, these GoldenPalace guys? Paid $25.00 for a Cheeto shaped 
          liked the Baby Jesus. I shit you not! What the fuck is wrong with 
          these guys? You can get a whole bag of cheeto's for a buck! They're 
          all shaped liked something! Hey, look, GoldenPalace guys! This Cheeto 
          is shaped like William Shatner's fucking Kidney Stone!  
           
          Okay. I think we're straight now. In closing, I'd just like to say 
          that I can kick Patrick Stuart's Kidney Stone's ass. Kidding, kidding! 
          Come on, lighten up, I have no idea if Patrick Stewart ever even had a 
          Kidney Stone. And if he did, it wouldn't have an ass. It's a Kidney 
          Stone! Come on, get with the program! 
  
          
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