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To: Rambi who wrote (49416)	4/19/2000 7:18:00 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 71178

<<I remember the last haircut you wrote about-- you were furious. Said you'd been scalped. >> I was. I asked for it to be cut 1" all over and the son of a bitch scalped me. Lost my business. When we had Sarah in to help with Sue she said she knew someone who would come out and cut Sue's hair. Jo came out and did a nice cut for.... 8 bucks. She's not the person who did my scalp in September. That guy was a union cutter. The scalp I got in September needed cutting in January. Went from scalped to almost shoulder length and real wavy. Took too long to dry in the morning. Jo cuts it right with no wait. She's worth $50 and charges $8. There is a God.

To: Rambi who wrote (49416)	4/19/2000 8:46:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 71178

Dash is coming down! Oh boy. To look at the rhodies. I need to go out and take some more pictures. But I thought I would say hello. 125.00 for a haircut? 125.00 for a haircut? You know what I like about between here and Dash's house? You cross the Skookumchuck River. Really. The Skookumchuck. It's good sized river. I feel good every time I go over it. I just like it. "Oh! The Skookumchuck!" There is a company in a town near there, that makes logging equipment. These very macho things called "yarders." A yarder is like a pole, about 5 or 6 or 7 stories tall, with a dozen cables attached to it, that is used to drag sections of logs through the woods to the yard, where they load them on LOG trucks. Drag them right up a cliff, lickety split, if they want to. It's steel, extendable, guy-wired, and connected to a super-powerful winching motor. This is a sort of modern replacement for "highline" logging, where they topped the tallest tree, a "Topper" did, and then ran cables to other mountains or giant trees and dragged the logs along the overhead cables. People get killed, doing that, every few nanoseconds. Two inch thick cables, a mile or two long, snap, and give everyone a 125.00 haircut. A hundred and twenty five dollar haircut? But the neat thing is, the yarders these guys make are displayed, fully upright, even "erect" one might say, extended way into the sky, along the road to Dash's house, by the Skookumchuck River. And the company is called, SKOOKUMCHUCK. And so there are the tower poles, all in a row, giants of the logging industry, and along the poles it's painted in bright letters: S K O O K U M C H U C K Like that. Neat, huh? It takes a while to figure out what the heck they say, except for people who know. Skookumchuck. The machine shop I used to work in made some parts for Skookumchuck. The first time I heard the guys saying that, I thought they were joking. "There's really a Skookumchuck Logging Machinery Corporation? 'Cause I'm not addresssing this crate until I see a work order." "Oh yah. Skookumchuck. Big Boys." Nobody knows what Skookumchuck means. Which is just as well, because I think it means "I like to kiss boys in the woods."