On 13 Feb 2007 08:01:16 -0800, "Chuck Gould"
wrote:

On Feb 13, 5:19?am, "Don White" wrote:
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message

oups.com...
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Sure, I suppose that if you go poking around under a skunk's tail enough times that eventually you might find a bottle of Chanel #5 back
there- but 999,999 times out of a million you already *know* what's
going to happen when you hoist that black and white striped
dustmop....Pee-yew!

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Thanks Chuck 4hat was a very humerous and extremely accurate $escription
of Mr Herring efforts lately.

It wasn't intended to be a description of Mr. Herring's efforts,
merely an example of repeatedly doing something that has previously
yielded unpleasant results (opening an email from a nemesis) and
expecting to be pleasantly surprised rather than disappointed once
again. Apologies to JohnH if others thought I was comparing him,
personally, to a skunk.

I took it as a compliment! :)

As a kid I had a pet skunk. They make cool pets. This one had not been
descented, and my folks couldn't afford to do so. But, it never sprayed me
or anyone handling it with me.

But, if anyone tried to pick it up while I wasn't around, they got sprayed.
This proved to be the skunks undoing. One day it escaped from it's room in
the barn and got on the neighbor's back porch. The neighbor tried to scare
it off the porch, and, naturally, got himself sprayed.

The skunk got shot with a .22.

I was very sad.

Still am, as a matter of fact.
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***** Have a super day! *****

John H