[AT] OT if you ever wondered what to do for friend who has itall when his 60th birthday is coming.

[Larry Goss]

LOL!  Good story, Mark.

If I may paraphrase a fairly recent SNL skit -- "Please don't make me tell a dynamite story.  You really don't want me to tell a dynamite story."

"No one's asking you to tell a dynamite story."

"PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME TELL A DYNAMITE STORY."

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Greer <markagreer at embarqmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 21:23
Subject: Re: [AT] OT if you ever wondered what to do for friend who has itall when his 60th birthday is coming.
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> I've probably told this here before, but my neighbor up the 
> street tells a 
> story about dynamite that would NEVER happen today. Lawrence is 
> 70-something 
> and has farmed all his life. When he was in high school his 
> father called in 
> to town and ordered a case of dynamite from the local hardware 
> to blast some 
> stumps out with. Larry G knows who they are (Johnson's in 
> Orrville). 
> Lawrence walked over to the hardware after school and picked up 
> the case of 
> dynamite and then got on the school bus and took it home. If you 
> tried that 
> today you'd be on the national news in no time flat.
> Mark
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 6:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] OT if you ever wondered what to do for friend 
> who has 
> itall when his 60th birthday is coming.
> 
> 
> So much for the land of the free.  Can you imagine what 
> would happen if we
> did that in the US these days?  Growing up I had a friend 
> who's grandmother
> gave him a case of dynamite for Christmas every 
> year.   He rode around the
> country setting off dynamite like most of us did fire 
> crackers.   Don't mean
> to be political by this but things sure have changed more here 
> than they
> apparently have in other places.
> 
> Charlie
> 
> 
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