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echo: lunatics
to: Linda Bence
from: Raymond Yates
date: 2003-04-05 01:19:34
subject: While Linda Is Busy...

LB> 

 RY>>>>>>>> Yeah. Soon-to-be-fried Coyote
Toastettes... Happens every
 RY>>>>>>>> time, right before the unexpected drop
off the mesa..

 LB>>>>>>> But he can 'take a lickin and keep on
ticking'....  :)

 RY>>>>>> John Cameron Swayze would be abashed..

 LB>>>>> And do we care?  ;)  At least he'd feel something...

 RY>>>> As much fun as being strapped to an Evinrude..


 LB>>> pssssttttt, Ray, what's an Evinrude?  :-/

 RY>> {in the old Timex commercials, John Cameron Swayze strapped a
 RY>> Timex  to the propeller of an Evinrude
Outboard Motor.
 RY>> Put the motor in a drum of water, and turnd it on. Stopped the
 RY>> motor, removed it from the water, and showd that the watch was
 RY>> still working properly and intoned "take a licking and keeps on
 RY>> ticking"...  Classic commercial around '62 or so..

 LB> Thanks Ray!

For you younger folks this predates the Bic Pen fired into the wood plank and
it still writes, or the Master Padlock they shot with the rifle..

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