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 ** Rip Van Winkle ** media type="youtube" key="rX95ybZ8qd0" height="344" width="425" __About Me __     <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">Hello all. As you may have guessed, I'm Rip Van Winkle. I don't need much in life; all I want is to be able to do as I please. I help my friends, but I don't like to do my own work. I love the wilderness, and whenever my henpecking wife gets on my nerves too much, I like to go out hunting with my dog. One day while I was hunting, I fell asleep in the woods, and woke up twenty years later. I didn't realize it until later, when I returned to my village to find it drastically changed, and that a whole revolution had taken place while I slumbered. I moved in with my then married daughter, and continued about my life much the same as I had twenty years earlier. To read my full story, click [|here.] <span style="font-size: 200%; color: #9b3708; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">__ <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">**Interests**  __   <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I enjoy squirrel hunting with my dog, sitting under my favorite tree and thinking, talking with the respected men of the town, helping others with their work, and long walks on the beach. I really do not care much about politics and current events, as long as they don't stop me from living the way I please. What I do not enjoy is being harassed by my wife, and working for my own sake. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 180%; color: #30bbb6; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">__Basic Info__ <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">//<span style="font-size: 180%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;">Refferences -// Irving, Washington. __The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon.__ New York: C.S. Van Winkle, 1819. - Bensell, George Frederick. __Rip Van Winkle.__ 22 December 2008 <http://www.wmuseumaa.org/family/collection_view.cfm?ID=1>. I do not, in any way, claim to own or have written the short story "Rip Van Winkle," or the collection of stories __The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon,__ both of which were written by Washington Irving. The picture and video are not my own, and the sites provided by the links are in no way mine. The only original work on this page is the text itself, which merely summarizes the story and gives information about the character.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;">**__Hometown:__** A village near the Catskill Mountains, in New York
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