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To: The Philosopher who wrote (2728)	7/6/2003 10:35:12 PM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

LOL, But my best friends are Californians.. They seem to be the most enlightened, the most tolerant and lastly but not leastly, the most fun.. But moving on to the "From out of the babes mouth comes the truth" department. I am reading this great book, one of the best and funniest travel books, I have read in a long time. About one of my favorite places on this planet. Australia.. It is called, "In a Sunburned Country" by Bill Bryson. Anyway a passage. He relates the story of a friend of a friend about her little girl sometime in the 1950s, in Melbourne. ..Picking it up. "In the 1950s a friend of Catherine's moved with her young family into a house next door to a vacant lot. One day a construction crew turned up to build a house on the lot. Catherine's friend had a four year old daughter who naturally took an interest in the all activity going on next door. She hung around on the margins and eventually the construction workers adopted her as kind of a mascot...."" Going on..At the end of the week, they gave her a pay packet with a shiny new half crown for all the little jobs she did for them... She took it home and her mother was so proud and with all the accolades, she suggested she should deposit it in the bank.. "When they went to the bank, the teller was equally impressed and asked the little girl how she had come by her own pay pay packet. "I have been building a house this week," she replied proudly. "Goodness!" said the teller. "And will you be building a house next week, too?" "I will if we ever get the fucking bricks," answered the little girl.""... <VBG> And to paraphrase this bright little girl, "I will keep posting as long we keep our fucking liberties".. AND EVEN IF WE LOSE THEM.. Or until they shut the internet down.. And then I will scribe my thoughts on leaves and throw them to the winds.. Btw, I read a lot of the day, outside, and then I worked on my craft outside, so I did not waste a helluva of time..<g> LOL, m