<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><div>After reading a humorous article I merely copied and pasted, having received it from a friend, a fellow Viz subscriber can either . . .</div><div><br></div><div>1 - Enjoy and comment on the comical text and its humorous intent, or</div><div><br></div><div>(as Jay Borden prefers)</div><div><br></div><div>2 - Conduct research and verify the article's accuracy and factual nature; apparently more research than he has applied to any of his own posted claims.</div><div><br></div><div>The boys at the sandbox must be proud of you, Mr. Borden.</div></span><br><div>Seeya later, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Spokane, Washington</div><div><br></div><div>"If not us, who?</div><div>If not now, when?"</div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>On Jan 4, 2012, at 1:21 PM, "Jay Borden" <<a href="mailto:jborden@datawedge.com">jborden@datawedge.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.snopes.com/critters/cruelty/dynamite.asp"><a href="http://www.snopes.com/critters/cruelty/dynamite.asp">http://www.snopes.com/critters/cruelty/dynamite.asp</a></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Jay</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com">vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</a> [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom Hansen<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 04, 2012 1:05 PM<br><b>To:</b> Moscow Vision 2020<br><b>Subject:</b> [Vision2020] Duck Hunters<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"> A TRUE STORY HEARD ON A WISCONSIN RADIO STATION</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><br><span class="apple-style-span"> REPORTING ON THE INCIDENT.</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> A guy buys a new Lincoln Navigator for $42,500.00 with monthly payments of $560.00.</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> He and a friend go duck hunting in upper Wisconsin.</span><br><span class="apple-style-span"> It's mid-winter.............and of course all of the lakes are frozen.</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> These two guys go out on the ice with their GUNS, a DOG, and of course the new NAVIGATOR.</span><br><span class="apple-style-span"> They decide they want to make a natural looking open water area for the ducks to focus on, something for the decoys to float on.</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> Now..................making a hole in the ice large enough to invite a passing duck, is going to take a little more power than the average drill auger can produce. So........................out of the back of the new Navigator comes a stick of dynamite with a short</span><br><span class="apple-style-span">40 second-fuse.</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> Our two Rocket Scientists...........afraid they might slip on the ice while trying to run away after lighting the fuse (and becoming toast, along with the Navigator), decide on the following course of action:</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> - they light the 40 second fuse; then, with a mighty thrust,</span><br><span class="apple-style-span"> - they throw the stick of dynamite as far away as possible.</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> Remember a couple of paragraphs back when I mentioned the NAVIGATOR, the GUNS, and the DOG...?</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> Let's talk about the dog:</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> A highly trained Black Lab used for RETRIEVING; especially things thrown by the owner.</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> You guessed it...The dog takes off across the ice at a high rate of speed and grabs the stick of dynamite, with the burning 40-second fuse... just as it hits the ice.</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> The two men swallow, blink, start waving their arms and, with veins in their necks swelling to resemble stalks of rhubarb, scream and holler at the dog to stop.</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> The dog, now apparently cheered on by his master, keeps coming.</span><br><span class="apple-style-span"> One hunter panics, grabs the shotgun and shoots the dog.</span><br><span class="apple-style-span">The shotgun is loaded with #8 bird shot, hardly big enough to stop a Black Lab.</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> The dog stops for a moment, slightly confused, then continues on. Another shot, and this time the dog, still standing, becomes really confused and of course terrified, thinks these two geniuses have gone insane!!!!!!</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> The dog takes off to find cover, UNDER the brand new Navigator.</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> The men continue to scream as they run. The red hot exhaust pipe on the truck touches the dog's rear end...he yelps, drops the dynamite under the truck and takes off after his master.</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> Then KA BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> The truck is blown to bits and sinks to the bottom of the lake, leaving the two idiots standing there with 'I can't believe this just happened' looks on their faces.</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> The insurance company says that sinking a vehicle in a lake by illegal use of explosives is NOT COVERED by the policy. And he still had yet to make the first of those $560.00 a month payments.</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> The dog is okay....doing fine.</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> And to think you thought all Rednecks lived in the South!!</span><br><br><span class="apple-style-span"> You just can't fix stupid.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Seeya later, Moscow.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Spokane, Washington<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">"If not us, who?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">If not now, when?"<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">- Unknown<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></body></html>