’ After all, most of these nouveau riche had pasted a fancy accent over an original regional accent. At times it was amusing because if they got ann...yed or excited the old accent would come peeping through. I was about twenty five when dad got an offer that he couldn’t resist. He really did know his business, but as he was starting to suffer from arthritis when he was offered a job as what was rather flamboyantly called ‘A horticultural consultant’ – that meant telling people what to plant and. "How bad?" he murmured."Very bad," she replied. "They saw a mushroom cloud and many innocent souls ascending to the spirit world." Oh, shit!" he murmured, and rolled back to stare upward into the clouds. "A nuclear attack."The hot sun blazed down upon the tent and the small crowd of people gathered in the dusty pasture on the edge of the north Texas town. Loudspeakers stood behind a crude platform at one end of the tent, facing rows of seats where sweating people fanned themselves with folded. He didn't say anything and after a little bit didn't really listento Margaret and Joyce's conversation. He saw Margaret hand Joycesome pictures and then heard Joyce laugh out loud a few times. Heknew they were the pictures of him.Then he heard Margaret calling him. He came back from hisdaydreaming. She handed him the car keys and told him to get thebags out of the trunk and the garment bags out of the back of thecar. He had never noticed the garment bags in back. Joyce showed Margaret the. " She dressed and made up her beautiful facewith care and smiled at the result. "I am so beautiful! It is sowonderful to be me - Veronica Lodge! I hope the new Jughead is ashappy!" And again she laughed cruelly. "Archie will be mine! And ifanyone like Betty gets between us - friend or not - will they ever besorry!"Proudly, she went downstairs when she heard the bell. Archie's eyes litup when he saw her."Gosh, Ronnie, you're so beautiful!" Thanks, Archiekins!" she murmured in her sexy voice, and.