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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (7336)	7/22/1999 8:52:00 AM
From: Mr.Manners	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12754

Foxxxy Has A Cook Out Latest Delicacy: Nuclear-Boosted Crayfish HELSINKI (Rooters) - Officials at a Finnish nuclear power plant say they have tripled the growth of crayfish by incubating them in waters warmed by heat absorbed by its cooling system without affected the taste of the delicacy. Environmental protection manager Foxxx Y at power group Teollisuuden Voima told Rooters the crayfish grown in the 13 degree Celsius (55.4 degrees Fahrenheit) water were delicious, and she had no qualms about serving them to guests. ''They don't taste like a nuclear power plant, which after all has no taste or smell to it,'' Foxxxy said. Growth of freshwater crayfish, a seasonal delicacy typically eaten in late summer in Finland and Sweden, was accelerated so that those hatched in spring last year reached full growth of 10 centimeters (four inches) in one year instead of three, she said. Foxxxy said the experiment was 100 percent risk-free and had the blessing of safety authorities since the water from the cooling process was completely isolated from radiation. She said the plant had already sold a batch of about 100,000 crayfish to fish farmers as livestock. Another 100,000 had hatched in May and would also be sold, especially to Nasty Nathanc, DSGumby, and other unnamed denizens of the Flambe Thread.

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (7336)	7/22/1999 12:12:00 PM
From: Druss	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12754

Cajun Cheer Leaders--A little of our lovely Sherry's past. With some extensive DD I was able to find a lady from Sherry's High School (Black Water High) in Louisiana who was actually a cheerleader with Sherry for the Black Water Swamp Devils. Here is Loretta Prudhommes letter: Dear Mr. Druss I do remember Sherry very well. She wuz a cheerleader like me fer the Devils. Sherry an I didn't git along well at furst. I thought she might be uppity. When we wuz both picked fer the cheerleadin squad I thought I better jest talk to her out right. Sherry had bin the Home Comin Queen and gittin to be cheerleader, well there jest weren't much more a girl cud ask from life. Sos I went up to her and said I hoped she weren't feelin too big fer her briches now that she were a cheerleader an all. I tole her that sometimes I thought she were puttin on airs an all. Sherry said, "You can relax Loretta, I know high school isn't fer ever. I want to get me a good swamp buck jest like you do and settle down. I can't wait to be barefoot in the kitchen, filling up the wood stove with a half a dozen kids hanging on my apron. So you can ease your mind." Well Mr. Druss the part about bein in the kitchen an all that did make me feel better. It sounded like she had her feet on the ground purty solid there. But I started wondering about the swamp buck part. There jest ain't that many really good swamp bucks around, that is settin yer sights purty high and even so, Sherry weren't showin much interest in them either. Canby Higgenbottom wuz jest crazy about Sherry and he were the prize catch of Black Water High. Canby cud always git a possum or a coon no matter whut the weather wuz like or time of year, he were quarterback of the football team, and he always brung a possum fer the family of the girls he were courtin. Them kind of manners is rare and shows the kind of breedin he had. Sherry never paid Canby no mind though and he wuz the best lookin guy at Black Water. He even bathed more than anyone else, it weren't putting airs on though, Canby didn't do stuff like that, he said it helped his possum hunting. So I started wondering if Sherry really did want a swamp buck, I means where cud you find a better one than Canby? Still I gived her the benefit of the doubt an we became gud friends. Sherry were a pretty gud cheerleader and I think we wud have had a gud year, since the Swamp Devils won the state championship and all, if it weren't fer the outfits. Sherry kind of fit hers better than the rest of us cheerleaders. It caused some upset I can say. The principal said that before this all the cheerleaders kind of looked like sacks of taters in their cheerleadin outfits. Sherry didn't. Still we got a lot more people coming to the games than we ever did and that really helped out cause the team wuz able to buy helmets fer the furst time. Some of the old timers said that may have been the difference in the Devils winnin the championship since they usually did real good in the furst part of the season but kind of fell off as the brain damage accumulated. So I guess it wer fer the best. I kind of lost track of Sherry after high school. She went to New Orleans the last I heared. I got married and got nine kids now so I is blessed. My oldest is playin fer the devils. I am real proud of that, it kind of is like a tradition and I am still helpin the team somehow. Ain't many of them helmets we got from Sherry's cheerleadin days left though so I don't know if the team can git the championship or not this year. They kind of rotate the helmets but still towards the end of the season most of the boys are pretty addle brained. Sincerely Lorreta Higgenbottom (Yep I is with the best, Canby and I is together an hoping to be married next June).

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (7336)	7/23/1999 12:44:00 PM
From: Druss	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12754

Cajun Cheerleaders Dear Mr. Druss Thank you for responding to my letter about Sherry. I do remember a lot more of course about her besides us jest bein cheerleaders. Furst off I cain't say that anyone I knowed drank fer 'medicinal purposes' like you said we might. Everybody I knowed drank to git drunk. Sherry did drink too. I remember her sayin it were the only thing keepin her from 'goin crazy in this hick town.' I never figured out whut she was upset about. Whut other kind of town would you want ter live in? Sherry could hold her liquor though, I remember all of the guys complained about it. Cost them a fortune and never get drunk enough they said. You wuz sharp to see that I were married but planning ter get married to Canby Higgenbottom. You see, after high school I got married of course, all of the girls did except fer the ones havin kids or Sherry. Sherry up and left town fer New Orleans. She weren't even pregnant or nuthin. That were a real scandal I kin tell you. Ifn she had been pregnant it would have been OK cause then it would jest look like she were pertecting the family name and all. But jest to leave, it made her look powerful uppity. Anyways I married Wade Stubblefield, and about six months later had my furst kid Ranson. We wuz never shure Ranson wuz Wades cause I passed out at the party when the Devils won the state championship and don't know fer sure who had a shot at being his dad. But Wade always treated him jest like his own. He whupped the tar out of all the kids so he were a purty good father. Wade were kilt after our sixth kid Ida were born. The utility company decided to run some power lines through Black Water. They wuz lookin fer electric people to work on the lines. Wade had seen them at work and figured he had lots of practice shinnying up trees after possums and coons that got stuck there after he shot them and ifn he could do that he could climb them poles. There must be more to that electic stuff than the pole climbin I guess. His furst day Wade did somethin with them wires and knocked out the power to Shreveport for three hours and fried hisself too. He wuz up there a sizzlin the whole time the power were out. Smelt like the rib barbeque at Pollards Barbeque Emporium when they have pork ribs. I guess I shouldn't say that but it is true. Wade an I were fightin anyways so I guess it saved us havin to go through a messy divorce an all. I hear that is hard on kids so I reckon it were fer the best. I got a widows pension from the power company so that worked out well too. With the pension an me only havin six kids I were a prime catch I reckon and plenty come a courtin me. I settled on Bob Warston who were a gud possum hunter (I had gotten used to havin possum regular with Wade). We had three kids and were happy enough I reckon when Bob were kilt. Least ways that is the way it seems. He heard there were some shine bein stored in a gator hole near Vicks River. He jest dove right in that hole, he always did have a taste fer shine. He never come out, Old Man Grimes who knows that river better than anybody says there ain't nothin but a ten foot gator what lives in that hole so I reckon Bob is a goner by now. I married once to be married (I didn't want to be an old maid like Sherry was so willin ter be) and I married once fer regular possum and I decided ter marry this time fer love. An God heared my prayers, Canby Higgenbottom divorced his wife fer sleepin with Pastor Wittman and were free. We has been livin together jest happy as we can be. As soon as they declare Bob dead we's gonna marry. I think this is all fer the good, I heared you shouldn't marry yer cousins anyways so the children Canby and I have might turn out even better than my other kids. Sincerly Loretta