[Groop] A Grooism waiting to happen!

[Ronny Hansen]

You are a brave man Larry :)

Be sure to wear a life jacket if you ever take "Groo" on a ferry ;)

-
Ronny Hansen

> I just got vanity plates (custom license plates) for my car. As with everything else in my life, they come with a story! 
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> Back in 1995 I got my first vanity plates, simply saying GROO. This was widely seen as a bad move. 
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> Within about a month of tagging my car with the GROO license plates, the engine simply melted down into slag (overheated on a 2 hour drive, melted the engine block. BAD!) Yup, Groo "sank" my car. 
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> So, I turned in the GROO plates and, living in the city, decided I didn't need a car anyway.
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> When I moved a couple of years later, I decided against the GROO plates, and didn't do anything special. Every once in a while, I'd consider getting special plates made up, but never took the plunge.
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> Grooisms are anecdotes of Groo-like woe, screw-ups, mishaps, and all around bad luck that are printed in the back of the Groo comic books, and I've had enough printed, there and in the online web group, that I was dubbed MISTER Grooism. 
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> My first printed Grooism was actually the tale of my car self-destructing, pretty much as told above. 
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> It's funny, my "new" used car is a 1995 Mercury Cougar, I didn't realize the significance of the year until, while registering it for the first time, I inquired about vanity plates.
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> "I used to have plates that said just GROO, do you know if they are still available?"
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> "Unlikely, here let me check... mmmmmm, nope, they are taken - oh wait, it's you! They've been held in your name since 1995! We normally only hold them 2 years!"
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> Karma? Good karma, bad karma? Who knows!?
> Either way, the Groomobile lives again! 
> 
> 
> This link says it all! http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrgrooism/sets/72157606473120012 
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> -Larry "Mr. Grooism" Steller, Master Mendicant