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The giant smiled at the Specks of Rod, who smiled back, until he spoke to them. To the Specks his voice sounded slow and deep and slurred.They looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders. The Specks of Rod decided to go back to what they were each doing before the giant arrived.As they left they kept looking over their shoulders to make sure the giant was not lifting one of his big feet to stomp on them. He did not movefrom where he stood and maintained his smile until they were out of sight.

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The next day the giant was right where the Specks of Rod had left him, only he was sitting. So, the Specks went about their daily chores, andoccasionally they would look over their shoulders at the giant just to make sure he had not stood up. This did not change for several days. Finallythe giant got up and started following some Specks around. He seemed to be watching them as they went about their everyday tasks. He still smiled ashe watched them, but not as much. Day after day, month after month, season after season he watched them tending their fields, from planting to harvest.

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At harvest time many Specks noticed how much thinner the giant looked and how little he smiled as compared to when he had first arrived inthe Kingdom of Rod. As they talked about it, they realized no one had seen him eat while he had been there. Some of the Specks got together andbrought food to the giant. When he saw that they had brought some food to him, the giant looked horrified! He got up and ran off, far away fromthe Kingdoms of Rod and Rilonate.

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There is no official record of when the giant was seen last or who saw him, but a few Specks from both Kingdoms insist that they saw the giantascending into the heavens early one morning a few years after he ran away from the Kingdom of Rod.

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About the time that the giant ran off, spies from the Kingdom of Rilonate came to the Kingdom of Rod and saw that the Specks of Rod werenot obliterated. They noticed that their enemies were not even bruised a little! This report went back to King Rilonate, who was shocked andupset that once again the Specks of Rod had foiled his own Speck Kingdom. He ordered a delegation to go to the Kingdom of Rod and meet with adelegation of the Specks of Rod. When the delegation of Rilonate arrived at Rod there was much shock and agitation. You are supposed to be squashed!said the representative of Rilonate. Well, you are supposed to be squished! said the representative of Rod.

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Tensions rose and accusations flew! Each side blamed the other for making their King's most famous speech a pack of lies. The delegationsgave messages to each other to take back to their respective kings about how there could never be peace between the two kingdoms. As they leftthe meeting, they all thumbed their noses at each other! The Oobla Senchter Hakkt was back in full swing.

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King Rilonate grew tired of the thousands of years of bickering between his Specks and King Rod's Specks. In a desperate move to bring abouta day of peace, he asked for a secret meeting with King Rod at the center of Ogdilla. In the thirty fourth month on the second day, during the eightyninth year of the third millennium of the Oobla Senchter Hakkt, the kings met. The two kings reasoned for two weeks, trying solutions that werefair for both kingdoms, but to no avail. Meanwhile, Ogdilla himself had grown so tired of the angst he felt on his back that he spread all ofthe Specks of Rod to one half of his back and the Specks of Rilonate to the other half of his back. In a violent quake, Ogdilla split into two beingswhich floated independently from each other. The only problem was that King Rod ended up on the half of the back with the Specks of Rilonate,and King Rilonate found himself on the half of Ogdilla with the Specks of Rod. King Rilonate was at first mistaken by the Specks of Rod as King Rod,but he quickly corrected the Specks of Rod announcing that he was King Rilonate. The Specks of Rod immediately cut him into tiny pieces and fed himto their young. King Rod, however, told the Specks of Rilonate that he was indeed their king, and since few Specks of Rilonate had ever seen theirown king, they believed him. Eventually, King Rod had the Specks of Rilonate build him a large castle which housed his children, who were half Speckof Rod and half Speck of Rilonate. King Rod, posing as King Rilonate, lived to see his Specks harmoniously blend where it was previously thought impossible.

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The Specks of Rilonate did not cultivate food on Ogdilla's back using their own spit like the Specks of Rod; instead they rubbed their headson the fine, hairy grass-like particles that had attached themselves to cover the Rilonate portion of Ogdilla's back. The rubbing caused static chargesto build and build until small arcs of lightning flashed off of the Specks' heads. Ogdilla's blue gas in the immediate area of the arcs of lightningreacted by turning into bite-size cubes of lime-flavored finger snacks. This was the sole source of food for the Specks of Rilonate.

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Every 247 days (this was one year for the Specks of Rilonate, chosen arbitrarily because they did not have seasons) the Specks had their annualfeast, which was called the Fillange per Jungi. The great day began with the Concert of Rubbing, where the entire population of Rilonate, young andold alike, rubbed their heads on the hairy particles until they collapsed exhausted, unable to lift a limb. About 3 hours after this frenzy, some Specksregained enough strength to shakingly pull themselves upright. Then the male specks began the Harvest of Cubes while the female specks preparedgastronomic delights such as: Cube Fondue, Cube Salad, Cube Roast, Cube Soup, Cube and Cube-on-a-Stick (for the kids), Cube Paste, Cube Fillet, Cube Pie,Cube Relish, Cube Stuffing, Blackened Cube, Cube Kabobs, Cube Sherbet, Deep-fat-fried Cube, Cube Cake, Deep-fat-fried Cube Cake, Barbecued Cube, Cube Chowder,Glazed Cube, Cube Pandowdy, Broiled Cube, Blackened Cube, Cube Thermador, Cube-on-the-Rocks (for the adults), Steamed Cube, Smoked Cube, and of course,Susan's Cube Bubble Loaf. While the delicious smells of cube cookery were filling the air, those who were not busy found time to participate in funFillange per Jungi games, like: Come Over Here, Hey You Just Bumped My Friends Elbow, Are You Just Going To Stand There, and This Is My Bucket. The dayculminated with the Fillange per Jungi dance, which they performed lying on their backs with their feet as high in the air as they could possibly get them,first prize going to the dancers with their feet highest up.

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King Rod, whom the Specks of Rilonate thought was King Rilonate, used the occasion of Fillange per Jungi to campaign for re-election, since twelvedays after the picnic was polling day. The specks voted every year, but they only had two choices: King Rod Green Ballot of King Rod Purple Ballot. Either way,King Rod got re-elected.