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To: Sig who wrote (86416)12/21/1998 5:09:00 PM
From: HDC  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 176387
 
OTOT Sig, I moved my family back to Alabama earlier this year after living in Tennessee for 11 years. Where are you living now? Do you have a chance to visit Tuscaloosa for any games?

Best,

Duncan



To: Sig who wrote (86416)12/21/1998 9:42:00 PM
From: Don Martini  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 176387
 
WAAAY OT: Sig, it's the Auburn WAR EAGLES.

I married a couple in the chapel there 12 years ago. He was an opera singer Betty hired to sing at our anniversary party a song from a poem I had written, as a surprise to me. We became friends, studied the Bible together. She was daughter of an Auburn professor.

I told Betty no one could set Who Flings the Stars to music; too complicated. She found a composer to do so then David Stevenson voiced it magnificently! The long poem was about our pseudo ancestors, from pleopithecus and procounsel to australopithecus:

Museum of natural history
Its halls of marble beckon me
To learn of mankind's ancient ages
And life on earth's progressive stages
Thru tall bronze doors I entered there
To see a man with silvered hair
A noted archaeologist
And paleoanthropologist
With twenty students by his side
O happy day, he'll be our guide!


It continues for minutes, including:

Australopithecus is our next ape
Observe his almost human shape
But Leaky and Montague each agree
He doesn't belong in our family tree
Still he looks so handsome there
Gazing off with a manlike air
And we've gone to such heavy expense
To present this scene in his defense
That we could never throw him out
Tho we're not sure what he's all about.


WAR EAGLES, Sig, WAR EAGLES!
Not to be confused with:

Zinzanthropus, what an ugly cuss
We're sure that he was one of us
Bought his clothes from Mister Bear
'Cause no Macy's store was there
Ate dinosaurs and alligators
Didn't know about refrigerators
Lived in a cave, without any rent
Notice how his back is bent
Drew strange designs on the hard rock ceiling
Humanity's first artistic feeling ...
And when the ice age came at last
And all the reptiles took off fast
He ate his relatives one by one
Till finally his race was done
So now we bid him fond adieu
Old Zinny there, with eyes of blue
Who didn't want to be a man
Till evolution wrecked his plan


Today's market got me high, Sig, but I'll take something for it, I promise.

Good Evening, Sig!

Don