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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (328550)	12/12/2002 5:00:50 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I'm from a long line of seamen. A hundred feet of 3/8" manilla rope saved us from ruin sometimes. I learned how to tie knots with 3/8" manilla rope. My dad made our tree swing with 3/8" manilla rope when I was a little kid. We tied the Christmas tree on the top of the car with 3/8" manilla rope to bring it home from the tree lot. We tied each other up with 3/8" manilla rope when we played games. I pulled toy hydroplanes behind my bike with 3/8" manilla rope. We made Tarzan swings out of 3/8" manilla rope. We did tons of things with 3/8" manilla rope growing up. One thing we did not do was make nooses' out of 3/8" manilla rope because we weren't racists. Maybe racist kids think this way, but we were taught that all men are equal. Rule #15: > Rope. Men love rope. It takes us back to our cowboy origins, or at least The Boy Scouts. Nothing says love like a hundred feet of 3/8" manilla rope. > No one knows why. It was sent to me by a friend who is older, and still caught up in the 60s-70s NOW frenzy. She still talks about the night she was caught in the tear gas of civil disobedience at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. The human imagination IS bountiful. To surmise that this passage from a joke is hidden bigotry one would have to step into a realm that only a racist could inhabit. M