Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (39196)	12/14/2000 1:11:17 AM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Three Palm Beach Jews in a Voting Booth continued (epilogue)... ---- Gentile in line continues to cough Leon: Melvin, the Shikker supporter is still coughing. Melvin sticks his head out from behind the curtain Gentile: (impatiently) You know, other people would like to vote here. Melvin: Excuse me for a moment while I kibitz with my associates. (returns) Melvin: We're having trouble getting these pens to write. Theres no ink. Gentile: Thats not a "pen". It's a stylus. Melvin (dissapears back behind the curtain) Melvin: Boy, this cougher knows about this voting. Leon: Well, bring him in! Melvin: (poking head back outside, motioning the gentile to come into the booth) Gentile: Jeez, there's three of you in here. Leon: (sarcastically) He's not bad with the numbers either, Melvin. Melvin: I'm Melvin, this is Irving and this is Leon who's turn it is. Gentile: My name is JDN. Melvin: What is that, Joel David Nusbaum?? JDN: No. Johnny Don Nugent Leon: Oy. Irving: Would you like some chicken soup for that cough, Joel? JDN: You brought *soup to the voting booth? Irving: See Leon, "voting booth". Melvin: Of course not. It would have gotten cold. Irving had his wife bring it by 15 minutes ago. JDN: 15 minutes ago? How long have you been in here?? Irving: (pouring a cup of soup for JDN). It's not coming. There's a dumpling stuck in the thermos. I can't get the soup out! Leon: Use that pen to break it up. Melvin: It's not a pen, Leon. It's a Stylus. Leon: What is that, a Greek pen? No wonder it's out of ink. Irving: (breaking up the dumpling by repeatedly stabbing it with a Stylus) Irving: Oy, you really have to do a lot of poking with these things just to stab a dumpling. Here you are Mr. Nusbaum -- chicken soup. JDN: Nugent. Johnny Don Nugent. Thanks. Leon: Oy, he wasn't kidding. JDN: Mm'mm this is really good soup! Irving: It's Hadassah Lieberman's recipe. It's exactly the same as my wife's BUT with dumpling. Melvin: Okay Johnny Don Nudjen, what's the... Leon: Oy, I've spilled soup on the voting cards. JDN: No problem. I have extras. (passes out 3 fresh ballots) Melvin: How many extras do you have, Joel? JDN: About 200. I need to vote for the men and women the armed service who can't be here because they're... Irving: He really IS a pisher Bush supporter, Melvin. Leon: Here. Just hand them to me since I'm so close to the punching. I'll poke them for you. JDN: I've already pre-punched them, Leonard, on behalf of the men and women serving in our... Leon: (interupting) Not Leonard. Leon. Irving: As in Robt E. Leon (laughing at his own joke). Leon: Okay, you show us how then Johnny Don. We want to vote for the Gore meshugena and Lieberman with the dumpling yenteh. JDN: (Looking at Leon's punched out 9 of clubs) Uhh... Irving: We need that card. JDN: Okay, well here's all there is to it (punches the stylus into the hole in the machine). That's it. Melvin: (poking his head outside the booth) Attention voting people, please form a line here for express voting for Toches-lecken Gore and Lieberman votes. We have a professional voter with the stylus. JDN: Oh man, what did you do that for. JDN: (poking his head out and back in quickly) There's nothin' but Coloreds, queers and hippies out there, now. I can't go out there! Melvin: No? Well, we'll hand you the cards and you poke the stylus into the machine. As soon as the line is gone, we'll sneak you out. Melvin: (taking the voting cards). Thank you very much, we'll put this in the machine and make sure the ladies get your card. Next! ...Thank you very much, we'll put this in the machine and make sure the ladies get your card. Next! ...Thank you very much (for 4 hours...) Irving: Well' we've got quite a pile going, thanks to you Joel. Almost 1,000 JDN: (Methodically poking the stylus into the machine; Gore hole after Gore hole). I can't believe I'm doing this. Leon: Hey, these cards aren't punched through. None of them! JDN: (stopping) Here, let me see. Well, see, (holding one up to the light, and then another) it's clear that this one's almost all the way punched through and this one -- these others are clearly dimpled. Melvin: Dimpled? JDN: Apparently the stylus is dull. Irving: Probably from the dumpling. JDN: Could be. They'll see this though and know what the voter meant. Irving: They'll know the dimple was from a stylus dulled by a dumpling? JDN: Sure. It probably happens all the time with these old machines. Leon: Are you sure? JDN: Sure I'm sure. Who the heck is going to make a federal case over this? Irving: Okay, Joel. Thanks for helping us. JDN: Okay well, I need to get going. I have 2 more polling places to stop at before 7:00. Melvin: So, good luck with the Shikker. Irving: Melvin, Shhh! He's probably got the same problem. Leon: They all do (smiling and waving). -end- -JCJ