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[at-l] Sale fones VS Mature -
- Subject: [at-l] Sale fones VS Mature -
- From: camojack at comcast.net (camojack@comcast.net)
- Date: Thu Aug 4 02:37:52 2005
So tell 'em...forget that other nonsense.
-"Camo"
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> Jim Bullard wrote:
>
> >
> > * Eventually this cycle devolves to an exchange where RnR accuses
> > his opponent(s) of what he has done from the outset and the whole
> > thing fizzles out in exhaustion.
>
Ballparkin' it here....how close are we to that 'exhaustion' thing
happening? I've got stories about itchin' arms, hot hiker-chicks and
storms to tell. From camojack at comcast.net Thu Aug 4 03:03:47 2005
From: camojack at comcast.net (camojack@comcast.net)
Date: Thu Aug 4 04:05:45 2005
Subject: [at-l] The answer....
Message-ID: <080420050903.28401.42F1D9F30009C45200006EF12200750784050C0E0601030E0C@comcast.net>
...42?!
-"Camo"
-------------- Original message --------------
> Sometime back in the late 1700's, early in the month of July, in a small
> clearing in what is now southeastern Tennessee, what was possibly the
> most violent storm to ever occur occured.
>
> A small creek flowed from a woods on the north side of a meadow slightly
> smaller than 4 acres. The creek crossed the meadow just to the east of
> its middle, heading almost directly south. The creek was so unassuming
> that from certain vantage points, it couldn't even be seen.
>
> As it neared the woods bordering the southern edge of the field, the
> creek made a sharp turn to the east. Forty feet or so past the curve,
> the creek merged with another, larger creek. The two formed a stream
> that seperated the meadow from the forest for a few hundred yards before
> making it's way directly into the woods at the meadow's southeast corner.
>
> A man, Jacob Samuelson, stood on the slope that made the northwest
> corner of the meadow the highest point. From there, he could see all of
> the meadow excepting a small section hidden by a pine grove that jutted
> into the opening near the southwestern corner.
>
> Jacob stood and watch a small group of deer drinking water from the
> stream at the point that it entered the woods. A breeze had turned into
> a wind as he stood there. The sky was turning from overcast grays to
> tumultuous blacks and purple, a streak of electricity cracking through
> on occasion. He secured his hat and stepped back into the woods behind
> him, keeping his eyes on the sky as it churned and became more angry.
>
> Thunderous roars became louder and more frequent and the wind steady
> from the west. Loose leaves blew from trees and brown leaves from the
> previous year danced in the woods. Drops of rain began to fall,
> eventually making their way to the ground as the wind tried to blow them
> from their course.
>
> Just as quickly as the storm had brewed overhead, it all seemed to drop
> to calm. The sky was still angry. But, the wind had stopped and the
> rumble of the thunder was gone. The air was eerie and tense. Nothing
> seemed to be moving anywhere except the clouds growing in magnificents
> overhead.
>
> To the northeast Jacob noticed another storm heading toward the meadow.
> It was crawling just as the first storm had, with rumbles and promises
> of violence. This storm didn't stop when it reached the meadow, however.
> It continued on toward the southwest corner and the pine grove. It
> dropped lightening bolts with a ferocious frequency. It was so strong
> that it didn't waist energy dropping rain. It was more intent on blowing
> and shocking everything in its path.
>
> Before it reached the pines, which were struggling to lean as far away
> from the storm as they could, the storm began to turn, to spin, to chase
> itself. The meadow was a perfect playground for this bully. Jacob
> watched as it became angrier and angrier, its spinning getting tighter
> by the second. When it achieved its perfection, a beautiful column of
> destruction sucking and blowing the air at the same time, the roar was
> so loud that Jacob failed to notice that the storm to his right had
> began to dance with itself as well. When it entered the clearing it was
> so close to Jacob that it sucked the air from his lungs and dropped him
> to the ground.
>
> There were two tornadoes stirring up anything and everything in the
> meadow. Grasses and wildflowers laid as flat as they could. The wind
> didn't know which way to blow, and sometimes didn't. The cylinders
> twisting around the field acted as though they were sizing the other for
> a battle to the death. One picked the bough from a pine tree and left it
> suspended in dead air for far longer than it should have been able to.
> The other seemed to be more interested in knocking things down. Breaking
> things. Destroying things.
>
> Rain fell in short bursts. The winds were too strong to allow water to
> fall. The noise was too loud to allow thought. Jacob held a tree and
> watched the tragedy play out.
>
> After an eternity of just over one minute, the tornadoes captured one
> another. They became one angry mass that was going to do as much damage
> as it could possibly do in an existence it knew was going to be short.
> It bounced around the field one last time before it left and headed
> through the woods to the south.
>
> The swath in its wake was a hundred yards wide and smelled of sap and
> soil. No tree was left standing. The field was littered with limbs and
> tops from trees that stood majestically only moments before. The pine
> grove was no more. Only after the beast had taken its torment a half
> mile away did the rains start again. Soothing the wounds? Spitting in
> the face of the defeated?
>
> It rained for four days straight.
>
> Jacob Samuelson was never seen again. And, at no point in history from
> that afternoon in early July in the late 1700's until this very minute
> has a person thought of the storms that hit that meadow that day.
>
>
> --
> Felix J. McGillicuddy
> ME-->GA '98
> "Your Move"
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> http://mailman.hack.net/mailman/listinfo/at-l From blackwolfe at bellsouth.net Thu Aug 4 05:31:56 2005
From: blackwolfe at bellsouth.net (Black Wolfe)
Date: Thu Aug 4 06:32:06 2005
Subject: OT: Darth Dawg WAS RE: [at-l] THE Bear solution....
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And together it's pronounced wuse like a canid sneeze?
Bruce W. (Black Wolfe)
Shelly Hale wrote:
> Sly wrote>> Well, if you're going to be Wiggly Eyes or WE, dawg should be one of the others you were thinking about at your choosing
> to make it official. Then you'll rhyme, something with an M maybe . WE and ME
>
>
>
> I was thinking more along the lines of US (Unstoppable Sidekick)!!! Who wants to be THEM? We could work out an all new Who's on
> first! LOL
>
>
>
> Tenacious Tanasi
>
> (Shelly Hale)
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