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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (55322)	8/28/2000 1:29:21 PM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

Hmm.... You know those big electromagnet cranes that the railroad and scrapyards and shipyards use to pick up tons of scrap at a whack? They have an arm that swings around with a big disk on the end, all the scrap hangs from, when the magnet is turned on? We could wire and cable all the stuff together and thru my belt buckle and drop me over the side of an ocean barge. Or just sink it ~ maybe by overloading it. That would be sort of Natural. Probably take out a school of fish or some otters and get all depressing. Actually, much like Ish, I hope someone can use stuff. Techie was over and we were thinking maybe these gears here, Norton's latest, could be used to open a garden gate about the size of the Banc Paris vault door. You know; or someone's FRONT DOOR. Like MINE. Or Dash's. You have to watch your fingers playing with this stuff. You know, people forget, moi included, that just because your digits are in leather gloves, dohn mean they are UN-SMASHABLE. Like bananas. Banana slugs. And when things go "dink!" together, it's too late. Your glove is gooshy because that's blood in there.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (55322)	8/28/2000 5:08:56 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Lather, I have been thinking a lot about turmoil. We need something to extract turmoil. Don't you think? How many turms do you have to have? Anybody know? They always talk about turmoil in the Middle East..... Duh! That's the Gulf War! Was about! I've never seen one of these. But I'd never seen a nutria either, until last summer. Now they're all over. Norton "emptied his clip" at one that "attacked his boat," and then hit it with an oar. Missed seven times. Seven bullets. ("It was moving." Damn!) And he "had to" conk it with an oar. Pummel it to death. Not gonna let it go, at that point, these shooter people. Nuh-uh. Probably kind of disgusting. Remind MJ to tell you about that one! (And his latest invention!) And over by Home Depot, one ran out of the blackberry bushes and tried to get in our car. A nutria, I mean. Yah! A nutria. (I didn't mean an idiot with a gun.) Most of the opossums have disappeared ~ we are experiencing, instead, a "bloom" of raccoons. Used to be you couldn't go out at night in our fair-to-good state without seeing a possum. Really. EVERY night. Now we have coons and nutrias. It's "ecology." Of some kind. I hear about "turm limits" ~ I usually go for controls like fencing and modified feed ~ but I suppose we need Fish and Wildlife 'quotas.' And these "turms of endearment" ~ people are keeping them for pets? Midturms ~ I think those are a commodity trader's reference, like "porkbellies." Porkbellies. "Midturms." I hear it a lot. People losing big. Yes; remind me to tell you of Norton's encounter with a nutria. I think the rong animal lost. Pretty sure of it.