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To: TobagoJack who wrote (6434)	9/15/2002 3:43:55 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Respond to of 89467

Hi Jay, so that's where you're doing your time (g) >> bet is that the Security Council ducks will be lined up soon<< ...and Schröder (pretty certain to win elections) will do some backpedalling, with Washington politely or unpolitely ignoring the bloke. And then we're in for fireworks... >>Is your portfolio allocated 'storm ready' and positioned for 'survival whatever may'?<< Yeah, sure, go ahead, push the button. I remember one single time-lapse moment years ago - sit back it will take some time -: we (ie me and my wife, possibly kids sleeping upstairs, just dont remember, its immaterial) had a house heated with an oil oven. This stuff of course produces tons of fine ash, that just keeps collecting until a moment comes, when you just cannot light the darn thing anymore. Imagine a couple pounds of fine back oil dust (50um) grinning at you, saying "Make my day, punk!" So, sigh, you need to vacuum-clean the beast. What comes now, i best can present as a film book (my wife holding the vacuum tube, me somewhere off-camera) -0:03 (M, bending over the oven, opening the top cover) ..."My God, there's tons of this stuff there" -0:02 (DJ, off-screen) "I told you, are you ready?" -0:01(M, sticking the vacuum tube into the black hole): "Yeah, go ahead..." 0:00 (DJ, punching the power switch) In my mind's eye I still see my wife's big behind, while she's bending over the oven and vacuuming it, and to her left the time-zoomed explosion of black dust, that in 4 seconds turned our place into a funeral home: we just happened to forget to put in the filter bag. >>so re survival what may<< Yeah, sure, go ahead, push the button. To substantiate my chuckling impotence in this very moment: I am reading the "When Genius failed" and it just maps one to one. These guys had no humour; What's a real earthquake for me, is the fact, I am a really lucky SoB because a) I swore by the same religion and b) I am still alive. The scene from "The Sting" comes to my mind, with Hooker saying to Gandalf:"Yeah, it did not bring Luther back from dead, but (the big grin from Robert Redford) it sure was a lot of fun" RegZ dj