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Doc
Blakely
Pokin' Fun
The governor of one of the largest Rotary districts
in the nation recently decided to streamline his communication
system by e-mail. He sends directives to a subordinate who is
supposed to edit them and send the messages out to all
Rotarians on the district list. The subordinate received the
document and proceeded to delete the appropriate items so that
it would look like it came from the district governor rather
than just a forwarded message. When he hit the delete button
he deleted everything but didn't know it. What he sent was a
blank message ... except for an ad from an on-line dating
service. Something to do with a merger between e-groups that
expanded the commercialization of list groups. |
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Monte
Noelke
Shortgrass Country
The morning news reported John Ashcroft’s
confirmation as Attorney General. All the hullabaloo about Mr.
Ashcroft disregarded the fact that he was from Missouri, a
state of such high intelligence that the electorate voted in a
dead governor in November. Such prescience and discrimination
impressed us down in Texas. We often don’t discover our
worthies are dead until they take office. |
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Baxter
Black
On The Edge Of
Common Sense
What’s wrong with this picture? The population
of California increased dramatically in the last 10 years but
they have discouraged any new power plant construction. |
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Linda
Mussehl
As
I See It ...
I've recently learned that there's no such thing
as "just a little fire", "only a grease
fire", or a "minor kitchen fire." |
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Lee Pitts
Its The Pitts
We were all just sitting around the coffee shop lying
to one another when for some reason the subject of pinching
pennies came up. (Perhaps it was because the check had been
sitting on the table for 30 minutes without any of my
tightfisted friends with low pockets and short arms making a
move for it). One by one we went around the table, telling
stingy stories about the biggest cheapskates we had ever
known. Present company excluded, of course. |
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Dale
Rollins, Ph.D
Wildlife
By Design
"Paradigm" is a highfalutin term I learned at
College Station a couple of years ago. It's a two-dollar word
for "rut". As in, "I'm stuck in one and it's
steering my actions, whether or not that's really where I
wanted to head in the first place." Thus, paradigm
"shift" means going from one rut to another. |
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D'Ann Ducote
Palabras
The hoofprint that captured my focus as I swung open
the cattle guard gate had filled with water, and during the
rain's respite the sun shone in the depths of the print like
dawn on a well-watered stock tank. I knew that print like I
know my daughter's hand. |
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