From: "Lucy Hone" <luluHi Mike!!! MIKE WROTE
It is my understanding that the McGarrigle sisters are, in fact, US citizens who stopped on a highway while touring to give a Texan millionaire's son a ride to the Canadian border where he could safely avoid being drafted to Vietnam to fight in the the war initiated by the evil President Bill Clinton. The draft dodger, a certain GW Bush, was eternally grateful for the ride but unfortunately let slip the true situation to the border guards and the good sisters were then 'held' in the Guantanamo leisure centre until the case against them could be heard. I believe they are still there. While there they were befriended by a certain Dr L. Wainwright III who secretly married one of them, sources differ on which, later fathering the famous singer Rufus Thomas; most famous it should be said for teaming up with the Rev. Vicente Lavieri to make the best-selling aerobic video 'Do the Funky Gerbil' which won that year's Disco Bishop award. At least that's the way I heard it. Ah, good morning doctor. You make me laugh you do.... How is your padded cell? The view from mine is calico and wadding...... I view this list as a sort of virtual pub. We all hang around in our separate silences until someone perks up a topic and then we all shout to be heard....Some are heard more loudly than others... some have axes to grind, some have trees to chop,(shall we talk about co-dependent relationships Lucy? how would you feel about that)..... we speak a similar language but fail to understand the nuances leading to meandering threads of conversation and outbursts of rage and indignation....... But I am enjoying the laughter ... All around the globe we are sitting at keyboards .. "Tap tap tap tappity tap"...... then we ROAR WITH LAUGHTER or RAGE (or is it ONLY me?) then go on with the "tap tap tappity tap" again and any one observing this silence and laughter (as they do on my ward!!) will have me signed up for more largactil.....Mind you I am at elast level headed as I drool from both sides of my mouth!!! Oh someone was asking about expressions of cold..here it is "Cold enough to freexe the balls off a brass monkey" And the reason for this expression is.... A brass monkey was a tripod device for holding cannon balls on the decks of old warships... When the temperature got low enough the Monkey would contract and the balls would fall off it.... there now you know.... Lucy NP Neil Young After the Gold Rush
