Roland Francis wrote: > Mervyn's harebrained stories are not uncommon though they are becomingĀ > a tadĀ less frequent now. > > I didn't quite understand the recent explanation of why he didn't retire as > promised, after gold exceeded his personal target price. Nor did I > understand the kinetics involved in his sighting of a small plane frontally > hitting the crown of a coconut tree, bending it backwards and then being > catapulted backwards, tail-first onto a Tanzanian island landing strip. > > Must have been a coconut tree with a built-in GPS and accurately measured > velocity to have hurled the plane in the right direction so as to land on > the airstrip and the airstrip only within the length of the runway. > > Seems to me the only thing being catapulted there would have been the last > swigs of the feni bottle, in close proximity to his keyboard at late night. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Roland, 1) Gold has been the best investment of this year, decade and century. 2) May the happiness and love of Christmas be with you too. Mervyn --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------