George,

 GP> Not if you gave them the garden shears treatment upon conviction. . .

  Or the like the meme where the cat is about to do to his owner, what
he did to him. 

 GP> We all went through that phase.  My worst for pop was one summer's day
 GP> after  wortkingin direct hot sun in a someone's garden for 14 houes, I
 GP> had 2 cans of  coke from t he lady of the house, to cool off after,
 GP> then cycled home, stopping to bvuy a 26oz bottle, & chugging gthat
 GP> straight down, like water, then got a  big gulp in town (about halfway
 GP> point) & chugged that as I pedaled the last 3  miles home.  Got my
 GP> first ever case of heartburn (wickedly painful, until I  burped, not
 GP> just long enough to say the alphabet, but I couyld've recited every
 GP> psalm from beginning to end in the time it took to relieve the
 GP> pressure!

  Ree-ogg-me-nogg!! 

 GP> It's as bad as using hackneyed sports cliches. . .

 GP> Yeah, Billy, your grandfather passed on. . ." is how they'd say it. .

 GP> Why not, "Grandpa went long. . .& never came back."?

  Really.

 GP> Just say "dead" it avoids so many problems! (like Terry Swciavo -- she
 GP> wasn't  in a "Persistent vegetative state"; she was "dead." Just say
 GP> "dead."

  In the Associated Press Style Book (journalism) it says "just say 'died'".
It also notes that "the term 'funeral service' is redundant'".

 GP> Best way to contact a dead Italian..... .....use a Luigi Board.

  Something to pasta the time with.

 GP> Q: What do you do with dead chemists? A: You barium.

  Only if they're your enema.

 GP> Roses are dead, Violets are black
 GP> I'm a lousy gardener. (& poet)

  The difference between prose and poetry is that prose doesn't rhyme,
but poetry does.

"Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus".
"Men like cars. Women like..."

  Well, what do you want?? Prose or Poetry?? 

Daryl

... He does the work of 3 Men...Moe, Larry, and Curly.
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