[AT] OT: Gas story

Mike Sloane mikesloane at verizon.net
Thu Jul 5 15:17:18 PDT 2007


That reminds me of a story I heard on NPR the other day. It seems the 
editor of the local small town paper that served Normal and Oblong IL 
just loved to write headlines like "Oblong Woman Marries Normal Man". 
You just can't make stuff like that up.

Mike

Jerry Rhodes wrote:
> Right on George, the best one we did was at Normal IL, we got to the field 
> at 3pm, a 35 ac bean field behind a guys barn, drilled the hole an setup the 
> probes an chart recorder, the farmer had two dogs that would not go away, 
> tryied to drag off everything, though we had them gone, eat supper, an setin 
> for a nap, about dark heard a howling behind the truck, one dog was still 
> trying to get the cord out of he mouth an the other was trying to get his 
> leg down to run..VBG...it was fun to tell the boss how we needed to replace 
> a recorder an cord...they wanted to take it out of our pay if we lost 
> another one..needless we bought a 25' roll of fence.
> 



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