the last recorded incident of Rubik's cube sticker removal as a means to an end primarily as a result of changing policies regarding horse glue by the good people of Ideal Toys

the last recorded incident of Rubik's cube sticker removal as a means to an end primarily as a result of changing policies regarding horse glue by the good people of Ideal Toys -Alex Vermitsky Matt Torrance or Vance (don't ask, I don't know) lived until he died. Not remarkably, not unremarkably which I suppose leaves us with common flashes of brilliance but it wasn't until I was approached by Vance's sister that I got the idea to write about him she said Vance had wanted me to go to my ten year high school reunion and tell that joke I always tell about the brave hooker, and two very lucky... …well it's not a very good joke and Vance's sister has just experienced a significant loss so it's possible this isn't the best time to… have run into Vance's sister in a supermarket and she told me to go to my high school reunion and we didn't comment on the timing except to say I'd seen Vance at the last one 5 year reunion I said- too soon she said- with no qualms about what she really meant and Vance's sister meets this guy in a supermarket and says that there's this joke that he has to tell about these two hookers and a horse and it will resonate with others because Vance always enjoyed dirty jokes even though we both knew he had thought about profane humor as much as much as the next guy, which leaves us with: a guy walks into a supermarket and meets a woman who hates jokes except this one joke about a hooker and two horses, and the things some people will do for immortality a fact that, be it true or untrue, is now irrefutable a horse crippled at it’s peak and more so two people walk into a supermarket each with his/her own idea of the value of jokes especially humor in the face of grief and the woman says to the man tell the joke that Vance liked and make these people ten years older now make them laugh with that joke you always tell but I tell her that the joke doesn't include a horse at all I tell her (and god forgive me) the joke involves: Two fish are swimming along on a beautiful summer day And they encounter a pleasant enough gentleman who remarks, “Nice water we’re having today my friends!” And satisfied, continues swimming past the two young men who smile and consider the encounter to be pleasant enough, and genuine, and a testament to the gentleman’s manners, so much a testament in fact that both fish enter into meditative contemplation for nearly ten minutes when the slightly younger fish turns to his somewhat elder companion and as if it only just occurred to him asks without a hint of irony fish are obviously known for, he asks, “What the fuck is water?” and these two people trapped in the purgatory of a supermarket a place where people go in times of death during mundane afternoons laugh at the punch line the punch line that doesn't involve horses for some reason a lack of horses is comforting this day and there's this one about a sister who lost a brother to cancer who tells this joke about a hooker and a horse with a penchant for voyeurism everywhere she goes which relieved the preacher who wanted to laugh who wanted to laugh