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GST BOCES
Congratulates
Art
Student in the News
Josh B.
from Lincoln
Street Elementary School
Fifth grader, Josh B. is Lincoln Street Elementary School's "Student
Artist Extraordinaire!" The drawings on display in the school's
showcase reveal the original and fertile imagination that belongs to
Josh. This is very much in evidence in his series featuring the
exploits of "Milk Man and the Daring Dairies!" Josh, prolific for
his young age, has illustrated and written 10 chapters featuring the
super-hero to end all super-heroes, "Milk Man!" Milk Man, roving in
his bovine tank, encounters villains, such as "Cookie Man,"
everywhere he goes. It is up to him and the " Daring Dairies" to rid
the world of evil once and for all! Who are the "Daring Dairies?"
Well, according to Josh....
Excerpt from Chapter 2. Fat Sumo
Guy
Deep inside
Milk Man's stomach live the Daring Dairies. Butterfinger has butter
hair, fingers, body, legs, and feet Whipping Cream has a whip. He
has whipped cream hair, a bottle of whipped cream for a body, and a
tub of whipped cream for each foot. Ice Cream Cone has an ice cream
head, spiked hair made of mini ice cream cones, and ice cream cone
body, ice cream cone legs and arms, and an ice cream cone sword.
Cheese Boy has a Swiss cheese head (which had no holes in it), a
gouda cheese shield, and a string cheese for arms and legs, peeled
at the end for fingers. Yogurt Boy has spilled yogurt for hair and a
yogurt bottle, shaped like a soda bottle, for a body. But when
exposed to oxygen the Daring Dairies grow life-sized. They exit out
of Milk Man's stomach and help him fight.
When Milk
Man encounters villains such as "Cookie Boy," armed with "brownie
bombs," extreme measures sometimes need to be taken as detailed in
Chapter 5....
Chapter 5. "Duh, I'm such an idiot. Why didn't I think of that
before?"
"Get a taste of my brownie bombs," said Cookie Boy. He threw dozens
of exploding brownies at Milk Man. Milk Man dodged all of the
brownie bombs. "Oh well," said Cookie boy, "I'm sure you'll like my
cookie crackers. They're just like real fire crackers, but made of
cookies." Cookie Boy threw many explosive cookies at Milk Man. Milk
Man had managed to catch them all in a milk bottle. Then he looked
at the milk bottle. "Ewwww, the cookies are soggy."
"Duh, I'm such an idiot. Why didn't I think of that before?" said
Milk Man. He squirted milk at Cookie Boy. It worked. Cookie Boy got
soggy.
One
villain down and one to go (in the form of "Cake Boy"), "Milk Man's"
troubles are far from over....
Chapter 6. We're on the road again… I'm drowning! Help! Help!
Milk Man asked the Daring Dairies, "So, how do you get back inside
me?"
"We
don't know," they answered.
"Look in your stinking job description, why don't you!" screamed
Milk Man in rage.
"It
doesn't say," said the Daring Dairies.
"Do
I eat you?" asked Milk Man.
"No, please don't. We'll die," responded the Daring Dairies.
"Daring Dairies, re-assemble," said Milk Man, hoping it would work.
He felt a rumble in his stomach. He thought something would
happen….which indeed he was right. But it was not near what he was
aiming for. A Daring Dairy came out of his stomach. But it didn't
grow. "I'm the misfit Daring Dairy." "I didn't come out before, said
the Daring Dairy as it started to cry. "I must find someone else's
stomach and hope they never discover me," he said as he ran away.
"Maybe the Dairy Queen will know a spell to help fix all this, "
said Milk Man to the Daring Dairies. So they headed out to see the
Dairy Queen. Then they ran into a lake blocking their way. Ice Cream
Cone threw ice cream at the lake and the lake froze. They walked on
the ice.
Suddenly, the ice cracked. Milk Man took a giant milk bottle and
dumped the milk out. Then he threw it. He and the Daring Dairies
jumped on it and used it as a boat. They were glad they weren't
saying, "We're on the road again. I'm drowning. Help! Help!" (which
is how this chapter got its name). Cheese Boy got out two pieces of
stale string cheese---he was saving it for some strange reason---and
used them for oars.
At
last they reached the Dairy Queen's palace. They walked inside and
asked the Dairy Queen, "Can you get these Daring Dairies back inside
of me?"
The
Queen chanted a magical spell that went something like this"
"Ofellalish doopishieshish. This is all gibberish. Koopasiss." Milk
Man had then said, "Daring Dairies of the deep, reunite." The Daring
Dairies shrunk and got back inside Milk Man.
The Dairy Queen thanked Milk
Man for destroying Cookie Boy. Then she told him something about
Cake Boy being on the loose. Milk Man headed back and got on the
milk raft. The
milk raft carried him downstream. Then an alligator broke the milk
raft. ("Daring Dairies of the deep, assemble."
Ice
Cream Cone made a path of ice on the lake. They made it across. Milk
Man had noticed a new Daring Dairy. His name was Milk Chocolate.
Milk Man asked him, "So, what are your powers?"
"Well, I can turn your milk into chocolate milk."
Milk Man thought he'd make a good snowboard but, other than that, he
was useless.
Chapter 10. More-On Moron.
Milk Man entered the Milk Cave. He sat down and started to cry. He
said to himself, "Why did I let Uncle Ben die."
"You don't have an Uncle Ben," said the Daring Dairies, all at the
same time.
"Exactly!" said Milk Man, "he died."
Milk Man sat in a chair with a giant milk bottle over it. This giant
bottle is called a "Milk Sense bottle." A Milk Sense Bottle can hear
a cry for help over fifteen miles away. It can also sense an
evil-doing sweet, doing evil over ten miles away. When it senses
either one, it spills milk over Milk Man and then automatically
refills. When it spills on Milk Man he says, "My Milk Sense is
tingling."
"My
Milk Sense is tingling," Milk Man said.
"We're off!" said Milk Man.
"To
defeat Cake Boy?" asked Milk Chocolate.
"No, to see the wonderful Wizard of Oz," said Milk Man
sarcastically, while slapping Milk Chocolate on the back side of his
head. "Of course to defeat Cake Boy?"
So
they got to Cake Boy's secret lair. When they got inside they saw a
cake maker contraption.
"This thinger-ma-bobber dohickey contraption will make you look just
like me and you will be a slave for me," Cake Boy said. Milk Man
wasn't quite sure if he was more afraid of being as ugly as Cake Boy
or being his slave.
Little did Milk Man know, not all of the ingredients made him
evil….some just made him look like a cake. Cake Boy put him on the
conveyor belt of the quote "thinger-ma-bobber dohickey contraption"
unquote. Then he pulled the one lever. He made a very long evil
laugh, ending in three coughs.
Meanwhile, Milk Man struggled with the thinger-ma-bobber dohickey
contraption thinger. A pair of giant robotic hands were holding
eggs. They tried to crack them on Milk Man. But he dodged them just
in time. Then flour came from the roof. Milk Man also dodged the
flour. Then he saw giant egg beaters spinning really fast.
Meanwhile, Cheese Boy was asking Cake Boy impossible questions to
distract him. Then Cake Boy asked him how he came up with all of
these questions. Cheese Boy answered, "I used to be the host of the
game show 'Who Wants to be an Idiot?' "
Cake Boy looked at him, trying to recognize him. "Hey, you used to
be the host of the game show, 'Who Wants to be an Idiot?' " said
Milk Man.
"That's what I just said, you twit!" said Cheese Boy.
Meanwhile, back at the thinger-ma-bobber dohickey contraption
thinger, Milk Man jumped an held on to the pole of the egg beater.
He started to spin really fast.
"I'm going to be sick," said Milk Man. His arms got weary. He could
only let go. He went flying. He hit the end of the machine. He
bounced back just to the end of the egg beater. He went into the
oven.
And
here the Milk Man's saga ends for now. We, the readers, are left
with a cliffhanger. What will happen to Milk Man and the
Daring Dairies? While the fate of Josh's protagonist is clearly
uncertain, the fate of his author is a little easier to predict.
Indeed, with his talent, imagination and love of writing and
illustration....Josh B.'s future will be a piece of cake!
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