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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (10924)	6/6/1998 1:50:00 AM
From: Michael Sphar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

You're gonna think cannister shots and minnie balls are a walk in the park, after the tech monster bear quits shaking the tech sector rag doll. Things are happening, in a bad way, recently. Shall we talk ?

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (10924)	6/6/1998 3:38:00 AM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

JF; I wrote the name down, and will look it up. As a kid growing up in Charleston S.C. the Civil War stories about the blockade runners caught my fancy. The old Charleston Library even had the official logs ( copies ) from many of them. But one other war story also tops my list , "Sharks and Little Fishes" the author was so good you could picture and almost feel the ordeals that they went through. It was a down to earth and honest look at the U boat crews and took you right up to when they were sailing and only 1 crew in 10 was coming back, and they knew that when they went out. He was good with making even the small details real and how the most simple things can become so important to a man. Like I can remember one long trip were we ran out of meat, and it had been a very skinny trip catch wise , and on the way back, about ready to give it up we hit pay dirt and decided to tough it out, we had rice and flour a few canned goods and such but not a single scrap of meat, even all the bacon grease had been gone for 3 weeks. I was cooking fish and shrimp in every fashion and well it was not so bad, but a pure seafood diet was sure getting tiresome. Another boat came by and wanted some fuel to extend his trip, we needed ice , so we made a swap, he was also very low on groceries, but spared us a half of a pack of baloney and six slices of bacon. Now all my life I had avoided baloney , salami I liked, but baloney had been nothing but tasteless mush to me and I never bought any. Let me tell you also this stuff was turning green , and we had to wash it off. After the fuel ice transfer I decided to make supper and used one slice of the bacon mostly for the grease and flavor , and with the baloney being so old knew I better cook it and also wanted to use it up first, I used 3 slices of it, ( 1 per man ). Let me tell you even as I remember it now the smell of it cooking comes back to me, yes the smell of that baloney cooking in that bacon grease put off the best smell of anything I had every smelled cooking in all my life, and to this day I don't believe I have since ever smelled any thing cooking that smelled so good. To remember it now ( almost 30 yrs latter ) can still make my mouth water. As we sat down and ate I still think that piece of baloney tasted better to me at that time than any kind of steak or roast or other meat I had ever eaten before or since. I have tried cooking baloney since but have never recaptured any thing close to as good as that was. I guess I might try to go on a pure seafood diet for 3 weeks and then it might work. Maybe it was just because it had gotten old and had to have the green washed off of it ? But it sure was a delight to eat..and is one meal I will never forget. Jim