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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2>Siarlys,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2>Is the word "gummint" a
funny word for government?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2>I have been reading over my
saved gcfl-discuss mail and realized that's why I saved this particular
one: I have never seen the word before and it is not in
dictionary.com.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2>Thanks in
advance,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2>Jeanene</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Microsoft Sans Serif" size=2>----- Original Message -----
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<DIV><FONT face="Microsoft Sans Serif" size=2>From: "Discussion of the Good,
Clean Funnies List" <</FONT><A href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net"><FONT
face="Microsoft Sans Serif" color=#000000
size=2>gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</FONT></A><FONT face="Microsoft Sans Serif"
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<DIV><FONT face="Microsoft Sans Serif" size=2>To: "Red" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:jeanenehea@comcast.net"><FONT face="Microsoft Sans Serif"
color=#000000 size=2>jeanenehea@comcast.net</FONT></A><FONT
face="Microsoft Sans Serif" size=2>></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Microsoft Sans Serif" size=2>Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007
7:04 PM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Microsoft Sans Serif" size=2>Subject: [GCFL-discuss] Farmer
Astronaut and Refinance Funny and etc.</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080 size=2></FONT><BR><FONT
face="Microsoft Sans Serif" size=2></FONT></DIV><FONT
face="Microsoft Sans Serif" size=2>> Now don't blame me for doing all the
talking. You guys could say<BR>> something more often yourselves.<BR>>
<BR>> That Refinance Funny was all about my mother, so I had to forward it
to<BR>> her. May not hear back right away, because my parents are off on
a<BR>> vacation. My mother's father never bought a car without paying full
price<BR>> up front. She can't understand 30 year amortized mortgages. She
(the one<BR>> in charge of family finances, always) never went for more than
20, and<BR>> once paid off a mortgage in 15 years. A friend who was promoting
some<BR>> credit card once tried a sales pitch on her, closing with "and
its<BR>> interest free for the first six months." My mother replied "I never
pay<BR>> interest on credit cards."<BR>> <BR>> Oh, the Farmer
Astronaut? Everyone knows its a new G or PG movie, right?<BR>> I mean, if
anyone doesn't know about a movie, its usually me, so if I<BR>> know,
everyone knows.<BR>> <BR>> I probably would never have gone to see it if I
didn't have a Little<BR>> Brother and access to free tickets for a preview
through BB/BS. But I'm<BR>> glad I saw it. It was funny. It was not bizarre.
(No, I don't classify a<BR>> family rancher in Texas launching an Atlas
rocket with himself in the<BR>> capsule into orbit as bizarre. Fiction, but
not bizarre.) Best of all, it<BR>> got all kind of well deserved pinpricks
into the Homeland Security<BR>> Paranoia that has us collectively running
around in circles afraid of our<BR>> own shadows. Federal agencies close in
because the man has been<BR>> soliciting on the internet to buy vast
quantities of highly explosive<BR>> high grade rocket fuel. Why? To make WMD?
No, he has a rocket in his barn<BR>> and he is going to the moon. Also there
is some mousy little social<BR>> worker investigating the family as some kind
of cult because all the kids<BR>> really adore their father's passion to go
into space. She intercepts mom<BR>> at her job as a waitress at the local
cafe. (Social work ceased being<BR>> socially valuable about the time it
became <FONT color=#ff00ff>gummint </FONT>work.)<BR>> <BR>> That's my six
cents worth for today.<BR>> <BR>> Siarlys</FONT></BODY></HTML>