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To: Rambi who wrote (49631)	4/25/2000 2:14:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

It's finally starting to be like summer here... You know... sunny and 42 F... Why can't it be summer for 12 months of the year...???... >:-[ I think I should start a protest movement...the Twelve Months Of Summer Movement (TMOSM). Yep... Wish I could think of a better acronym though... Wonder how you think of those... come up with the acronym first and then find some words to go with it after...?? In that case... let's call it the SUNTAN Movement...er....now... what words would I use... Sunny Underwear-less Nude Tanning Au Naturel??.. uhm... well... sorry... that's about the best thing that I could come up with at a moment's notice... (0: Speaking of nude tanning... (I was, wasn't I???), we get these damned hot air balloons floating in the airspace over our farm... Yessir... occasionally, year round, we get these balloonists (eye-in-the-sky-spies) drifting along over the fields... sometimes several in the space of a day on a bright sunny weekend... Lots of "balloon ride" companies out in our neck of the woods, y'see... Now, I don't know if anyone here has had much experience with these folks, but they ARE STRANGE and a damned nuisance for sure... Yeppers... Like, they think they are a real spectacle when they are up there floating a couple of hundred or so feet above our heads... Can they be quiet and just enjoy spying on us and scaring the livestock??? HECK NO!!! They have to make fools of themselves by shouting, "HALOOOOOOOOOOOO DOWN THERE!!! LOOK UP!!! HEY, YOU!!!! LOOK UP!!!" Sht... as if we've never seen a damned hot air balloon before in our lives... Nope... We're sort of like some kind of "natives" here... You know... uneducated ignorant savages that have never seen a hot air balloon before in our lives... Well, there are 2 ways to handle the situation... A.) You can relent to all of the screaming and yelling and look up and give the silly shts a little wave... or.. B.) You can pretend that you're deaf and blind and don't see them... which just drives them mental and makes them screech and yell even more than before... Depending on my mood, I can do Plan A or Plan B... I used to do Plan B a lot... just to make them shriek and make asses of themselves, but now, in the interest of peace and quiet, I usually do Plan A... Unless I'm sunbathing in my herb garden... In which case I go with Plan C which consists of grabbing for my "privacy towel" which I keep handy for just such incidents... Bloody Voyeurs hanging around in the sky over my gardens... (there ought to be a law against these things!).... And did I tell you that we have a glider club over on the other side of the river...about 5 miles from here.... They're not noisy... no shrieks and yells.... no frightening bursts of air and flame from propane burners to create a horse stampede out in the pasture... Nope... whereas the hot air balloons are like the Clown Corps of a Floating Circus, the gliders are the Stealth Voyeurs of the sky... sort of like buzzards... You know... you're just lying there in the garden, enjoying the rays, only to look up and see this white-cardboardy-looking thing... like a giant paper airplane... silently floating over your farm... Just goes to show that you may THINK you have things all to yourself, but you're never REALLY alone.... Someone will always BE THERE!!

To: Rambi who wrote (49631)	4/27/2000 11:38:00 AM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

<<<Aren't you exhausted from your travails on the Bush thread? I've read a few of the posts and wonder that you persist-Anyone with the pseudonym of Prolife is not going to be convinced.>>> I know. But really, it wasn't about convincing him. It was partly compulsion (you called it tenacity, tactfully) and mostly that I felt like I was seeing something amazing, and until I'd gotten the full frontal, kept wanting to see more. In the end, it was maybe the most memorable exchange I've had on SI, and I'll never forget it. I know that's strange, and I'd have a hard time explaining it. It was not a cheering experience.