I should explain the background of this story.  So I brought a puppet to a bar, because I thought it would be fun to have it dance with people.  Unfortunately, some pranksters with a Sharpie decided to give my alligator a curly moustache AND a tattoo which read "MOO MOO" (for the Dead Milkmen).  It turned out to be one half of T.A.T.U. and some tall guy who looks vaguely like Howard Stern.  I was rather distressed to see the alligator defaced so nastily, but my friend Melissa chipperly told me she could get out the marker.

THEN! I received this cryptic email from my alligator puppet!  No joke!  I wonder if Melissa and Mark are up to mischief...and how my puppet not only learned how to read and write, but send emails from Melissa's account!!!  And if Melissa and Mark aren't really slave drivers!


pssssssssssst.... 
      Mistress Teeple.... 
 sh. silence please. 
it's late here, now.   
my keepers are resting in darkness. 
It is I. 
your long lost allicegator puppet. managed to log on, send you a quick how do you do   
here I'm at some sort of rehabilitation sanitarium. 
strange goings on here. 
im placed several times now in some sort of large machine. 
there I was liberally covered in some potion they call a 'stain remover', scrubbed, doused, tossed and massaged with water... foamy bubbles...rather a violent storm, nearly drowned. 
Had some garments to cling to, kept afloat. 
Sort of reminds me of the swamp, only...smells nice like.    ick. gag. hack. 
then another machine. the HEAT, blasted heat. blasted. like a sauna. 
been through so much as you know.    
since the traumatic events of that eve, have had several of these treatments during my stay. 
could all this soon end? they won't say. 
must be to remove the tattoos. ones were left on my abdomen and across my face, plus to mention my outfit, might b soiled beyond hope- images faded some, yet  scars in my heart will take the longest. 
why? how? what? they don't tell me anything here. the ignorant bastards. 
I hear the tall one snoring.  he calls me a crocodile! NAMES! shhh 
they call me names here. 
'sniffle. 
ok, I feel better now. I know u shall get this message my momma. really im ok 
crocs are very resilient.  yes i'm fine now. 
still , how i miss u, nothin but a limp rag without ya. er? yeah. that's puppet humour. 
how do you like my typing? 
Must be going. Say I just noticed the oddest thing, in a cage? I sort of fancy a snack. 
Yes. It is...a packaged snack! I saw my captors bringing food over there earlier, fattening it up I suppose. 
they call it 'Aengus'. Maybe like those aengus burgers I've heard of... this one has fur. big eyes. cute. don't know should i eat or date it. 
they tell me you have replaced me with some other puppets? NO!  they're meaning to break me. I shant believe them, scoundrels and liars!  shhh.