Date:         Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:28:57 -0500
Reply-To:     vw.bus@MAC.COM
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From:         Warren Lail <vw.bus@MAC.COM>
Subject:      Re: Zzzz . . . least interesting Friday ever
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Yer all a bunch of lubberly swabs as like as not!  Lubberly swabs, every confounded one of ye.  While the likes of you've been chasing skirts n' lookin fer leaky heads and all, me and that son of a Dutchman, ole Long John, have been to high adventure!  It's rum and food to the likes of me!  Bring me rum, ye hear!

Now me and ole Long John had it out some years aback - Long John was gettin' fed up with my stealin' parts off him late nights, but that's what pirate vanagons do, says I.  And he'd done the same to me iffin he'd had ten toes and all.  But that's then and this is now, and me and me mate are runnin' full sail again.

Why, just a few weeks ago we were caught on a lee shore, me and ole Long John.  It's life or death, says I - them that dies are the lucky ones, says he.  And so we took on a radiator project and got a fellow out of trouble.  Moved 'em just in time, too!  Ole beezlebub was drivin' up with his blue light a flashin', but we convinced him that all was well, this ain't the one's he's lookin' fer, and all of that obi wan kenobe stuff.

And what about me?  Glad you asked, says I.  I've got meself a new mainmast.  Got shed of me 2.1 and went with a oriental 2.2.  Fetch me an engine that'll tack against a headwind, says I!  Get's yerself a subie, says you.  And so I did!  Now I've got time fer mischief and all, lots o' travel, and not too shabby a mileage.  But I've attracted the attention of ole beezlebub and his flashin' blue lights twice since then.  Them fellers never let up.  Sometimes I wish they was one of us pirate vanagons, but then they're mostly just fords and chevys and such.  But they can't help it - everybody's got to be something.

So thar, ye bilge rats!  I've got plunder to plunder.  Find a suitable topic and first thing ye know it'll be Saturday and ye all will be normal again.  Or so I think.

Billy Bones  X (his mark)