You are Kidding! rob At 11/09/2004 17:21 +0100, you wrote: >Ron. I just had a thought!! How about a goatskin camera bag? > > I think it would be really cool to put my new Canon 20D and >digi-lens in when it comes!! Sort of a fashion statement y'know. > > Freeze the meat and send me a couple o' chops 'n' a leg over night >courier! U.S. Food and drug Admin: might not like that idea tho'. > > G.dad. > > > >avast! Antivirus: %TYPE% message clean. >Virus Database (VPS): %VPS% >Tested on: %TIMEDATE% >avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2004 ALWIL Software. >http://www.avast.com >%INBOUND=Inbound% >%OUTBOUND=Outbound% >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Ron Schwarz" <rs@xxxxxxxxxx> >To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 1:23 PM >Subject: Re: [pure-silver] Re: [pure-silver]: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: The End > > >> 08:53 AM 9/11/2004 +0100, Geoff Taylor wrote: >> >> >> OTOH, at the rate folks seem intent on getting his goat, perhaps I >> >> could prevail upon my wife to share her recent bounty? >> >> >> >> http://www.michi-kogaku.com/picsdir/Goats/Default.htm >> >> >> >> Hey, COOL Ron. Which one's called Billy Goat Gruff? >> >> The only one that was ever named was named by me, after a former employee >> whom he resembled in both visage and temperament. >> >> We finally had our fill of him and exchanged him for a fist full of >> dollars. I suspect he filled a few others shortly thereafter. >> >> The irony of our Goat Endeavors is that years ago, I said something to the >> tune of, "Now that we've got a nice place in the country, I'd like to >raise >> a few goats, for meat." I'd eaten goat meat once, having purchased a >small >> quantity of it on a whim. I found it to taste like lamb, but with much >> more flavor, and much less grease. >> >> As of this time, I have yet to taste a single morsel of goat meat, some >> five or six years into the endeavor. What I had intended as "livestock" >> seem to have morphed into "pets", primarily at my wife's behest. The same >> has occurred with the ducks and geese. >> >> Often heard expression in these parts: "They're so *cute*!" >> >> My other plan -- to have them serve as lawnmowers (a task to which they >are >> uniquely qualified, since they thrive on grass -- a better grade of >> provender than hay -- and, they, unlike sheep, will trim the lawn down to >> the perfect height) -- has been categorically denied, because, "We don't >> want people to see goats walking around the yard!" >> >> Oh, well. There's still the chickens... >> >> >> >> -- >> Website: http://www.michi-kogaku.com/ >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Sent to you by the pure-silver mailing list >> FAQ: http://www.tundraware.com/Photography/Lists/FAQ.txt > >============================================================================================================= >To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your >account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) >and unsubscribe from there. ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.