[Vision2020] The carwash

Tue Jan 24 11:36:30 PST 2006

Chris

I will explain that they were my neighbors just about the time that you 
explain that I could never seem to not have you over for lunch on Wash day, 
LOL.

Phil Nisbet

>From: Chris Storhok <cstorhok at co.fairbanks.ak.us>
>To: 'Phil Nisbet' <pcnisbet1 at hotmail.com>, joanopyr at earthlink.net
>CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] City Council and the Pledge
>Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:30:40 -0900
>
>Phil,
>  You best fess up that you lived next door to one frequently used site of
>the mobile car wash...
>
>
>Chris
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
>On Behalf Of Phil Nisbet
>Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 10:25 AM
>To: joanopyr at earthlink.net
>Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] City Council and the Pledge
>
>Heck no Joan, I want local flavor in those poems, something like this one,
>
>Topless Carwash
>A Moscow Sonnet
>
>The high-speed fan beats the sizzling air
>As the shimmering aroma of asphalt
>Rises into the sticky atmosphere
>Bathing bodies in streams of salt
>
>The splash of cool water with soapy suds
>Cuts the grime from sun baked cars
>And topless tanned bodies gently rub
>Sending blood pressure to the stars
>
>Young men line up for miles around
>With the heat sliding down their teeth
>And the CNN news crews have come to town
>To see these nubiles in their briefs
>
>It helps them to pay the rent and tuition
>It and the heat help them lose inhibition
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: Joan Opyr <joanopyr at earthlink.net>
> >To: Vision2020 Moscow <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> >Subject: Re: [Vision2020] City Council and the Pledge
> >Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:08:45 -0800
> >
> >I'm sorry Melynda, Keely, Warren, Phil and Area Chuck Norris Dan; your
> >poems are all wonderful, but I must insist that Moscow City Council 
>members
>
> >begin every session by reciting the following.  I was going to suggest
> >Dulce Et Decorum Est, but why get into that?  No, this is the right poem 
>at
>
> >the right time, with a special nod to its inspiration, Rosemary Huskey.
> >
> >(My apologies for Kipling's use of the "S" word.  Different place,
> >different time, different vocabulary.)
> >
> >Joan/Auntie
> >www.joanopyr.com
> >
> >The Female of the Species
> >By Rudyard Kipling
> >
> >When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
> >He shouts to scare the monster who will often turn aside.
> >But the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail,
> >For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
> >
> >When Nag, the wayside cobra, hears the careless foot of man,
> >He will sometimes wriggle sideways and avoid it if he can,
> >But his mate makes no such motion where she camps beside the trail -
> >For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
> >
> >When the early Jesuit fathers preached to Hurons and Choctaws,
> >They prayed to be delivered from the vengeance of the squaws -
> >'Twas the women, not the warriors, turned those stark enthusiasts pale -
> >For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
> >
> >Man's timid heart is bursting with the things he must not say,
> >For the Woman that God gave him isn't his to give away;
> >But when hunter meets with husband, each confirms the others tale -
> >The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
> >
> >Man, a bear in most relations, worm and savage otherwise,
> >Man propounds negotiations, Man accepts the compromise;
> >Very rarely will he squarely push the logic of a fact
> >To its ultimate conclusion in unmitigated act.
> >
> >Fear, or foolishness, impels him, ere he lay the wicked low,
> >To concede some form of trial even to his fiercest foe.
> >Mirth obscene diverts his anger; Doubt and Pity oft perplex
> >Him in dealing with an issue - to the scandal of the Sex!
> >
> >But the Woman that God gave him, every fibre of her frame
> >Proves her launched for one sole issue, armed and engined for the same,
> >And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail,
> >The female of the species must be deadlier than the male.
> >
> >She who faces Death by torture for each life beneath her breast
> >May not deal in doubt or pity - must not swerve for fact or jest.
> >These be purely male diversions - not in these her honor dwells -
> >She, the Other Law we live by, is that Law and nothing else!
> >
> >She can bring no more to living than the powers that make her great
> >As the Mother of the Infant and the Mistress of the Mate;
> >And when Babe and Man are lacking and she strides unclaimed to claim
> >Her right as femme (and baron), her equipment is the same.
> >
> >She is wedded to convictions - in default of grosser ties;
> >Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him, who denies!
> >He will meet no cool discussion, but the instant, white-hot wild
> >Wakened female of the species warring as for spouse and child.
> >
> >Unprovoked and awful charges - even so the she-bear fights;
> >Speech that drips, corrodes and poisons - even so the cobra bites;
> >Scientific vivisection of one nerve till it is raw,
> >And the victim writhes with anguish - like the Jesuit with the squaw!
> >
> >So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer
> >With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her
> >Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands
> >To some God of abstract justice - which no woman understands.
> >
> >And Man knows it! Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him
> >Must command but may not govern; shall enthrall but not enslave him.
> >And She knows, because She warns him and Her instincts never fail,
> >That the female of Her species is more deadly than the male!
> >
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