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Politics : High Tolerance Plasticity -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kollmhn who wrote (5144)	6/6/2001 12:37:50 PM
From: JungleInvestor	Respond to of 23153

More humor below (those of us with energy investments need it today). BTW, Coincidental build in crude inventories with OPEC meetings gives OPEC the ammo they need to hold production steady. This also happened at the last OPEC meeting. THE FARMER DECIDED HIS INJURIES FROM THE ACCIDENT WERE SERIOUS ENOUGH TO TAKE THE TRUCKING COMPANY (RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACCIDENT) TO COURT. IN COURT THE TRUCKING LAWYER WAS QUESTIONING THE FARMER. "DIDN'T YOU SAY AT THE SCENE OF THE ACCIDENT 'I'M FINE?'" SAID THE LAWYER. THE FARMER SAID "WELL I'LL TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED. I HAD JUST LOADED MY FAVORITE MULE BESSIE INTO THE...." "I DIDN'T ASK FOR ANY DETAILS" THE LAWYER SAID. "JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION. DID YOU NOT SAY AT THE SCENE OF THE ACCIDENT 'I'M FINE'" FARMER SAID "LIKE I HAD JUST GOT BESSIE INTO THE TRAILER AND I WAS DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD...." THE LAWYER INTERRUPTED AGAIN AND SAID "JUDGE I AM TRYING TO ESTABLISH THE FACT THAT AT THE SCENE OF THE ACCIDENT, THIS MAN TOLD THE HIGHWAY PATROLMAN ON THE SCENE THAT HE WAS JUST FINE. NOW SEVERAL WEEKS LATER, HE IS TRYING TO SUE MY CLIENT. I BELIEVE HE IS A FRAUD. PLEASE TELL HIM TO SIMPLY ANSWER THE QUESTION." BY THIS TIME THE JUDGE WAS FAIRLY INTERESTED IN THE FARMER'S ANSWER AND SAID TO THE LAWYER "I'D LIKE TO HEAR WHAT HE HAS TO SAY ABOUT HIS FAVORITE MULE BESSIE." THE FARMER THANKED THE JUDGE AND PROCEEDED "LIKE HE WAS SAYING I HAD JUST LOADED BESSIE, MY FAVORITE MULE INTO THE TRAILER AND WAS DRIVING HER DOWN THE HIGHWAY WHEN THIS HUGE SEMITRUCK AND TRAILER RAN THE STOP SIGN AND SMACKED MY TRUCK RIGHT IN THE SIDE. I WAS THROWN IN ONE DITCH AND BESSIE WAS THROWN INTO THE OTHER. I WAS HURTING REAL BAD AND DID NOT WANT TO MOVE. HOWEVER, I COULD HEAR OLD BESSIE MOANING AND GROANING. I KNEW SHE WAS IN TERRIBLE SHAPE. SHORTLY AFTER THE ACCIDENT A HIGHWAY PATROLMAN CAME ON THE SCENE. HE COULD HEAR BESSIE MOANING AND GROANING SO HE WENT OVER TO HER. AFTER HE LOOKED AT HER, HE TOOK OUT HIS GUN AND PUT HER OUT OF HER MISERY. THEN THE PATROLMAN CAME ACROSS THE ROAD WITH A GUN IN HIS HAND AND LOOKED AT ME. "YOUR MULE WAS IN SUCH BAD SHAPE I HAD TO SHOOT HER. HOW ARE YOU FEELING?