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To: bonnuss_in_austin who wrote (30497)	8/24/2000 10:49:10 PM
From: Uncle Frank	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 35685

Congratulations, Porchies, you've passed G&K in terms of number of posts! The activity is so heavy on both threads that there's no way I can possibly read them all without it becoming real work, which is what I retired last November to avoid. Now, Miss Bonnuss, that explains why I haven't responded to your 3 or 4 posts to (or at) me today; I just didn't see them. In the future, if you'll send them to me rather than to yourself, it will expedite my responses, provided I have any. >> What say, Uncle Frank? Want to trot out some interesting PMs of earlier today between you and me for 'public scrutiny?' Please don't disgrace me, Bonnuss. Once folks find out that I'm a Bob Newhart fan who makes his living at investing, I'll be ruined. I've been letting everyone think that I like Jerry Lewis and am on the dole. Now don't tell anyone (fat chance, that), but I actually used to love George Carlin, particularly the Hippy Dippy Weatherman routine, but folks from my generation have a difficult time saying those 7 dirty words in public. Glad to see you boomers don't have those hang ups. I don't mind if you want to post the PMs from our secret trysts; it will make Voltaire and Polvie realize they aren't the only studs on the Porch <gg>. But I have to caution you that doing so will put you in a decidedly un-elite category with edamo and Molloy, since they both employ that technique. >> But, he wasn't a protestant ... nor a 'puritan' i.e. the 'Puritanical Work Ethic' moral platform ... don't 'Puritanical Work Ethic aficionados' HAVE TO BE PROTESTANT? Damn ... now I'm confused ... Help me out here, Uncle Frank, if you can 'sandwich' just a few 'free minutes' into your busy 'professional work schedule,' as you write that you consider this SI board participation of yours 'as your business.' No problem, Bonnuss. The market's closed and I've finished counting the gold pieces I raked in today. I think you were referring to the Puritan, not Puritanical, Work Ethic. Actually, the Puritans bred like bunnies and were an erotic bunch to boot. After all, it's a historical fact that if Captain Smith hadn't deflowered Pocohontas, we'd have never discovered corn and turkeys or bought New York. I saw that in a Disney flick. >> Do you know if Uncle Frank has 'German blood' <g> in his ancestry? And do you? And does Volt? I don't, but I do have some turkey in me. Since Volt and Dealie are my kin, you wouldn't think they would either, but my sister had a little indian in her (several times), so lord knows what dna they carry. >> hahahahahahahahahahahaha Personally, I hate laugh tracks, but if it helps distinguish your funny remarks from your mean ones, go right ahead. uf btw, I'm taking your advice and trying to be less stiff and more humorous. I wouldn't want anyone confusing me with algore. How am I doing?