<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Reminds me of the Robert Service story:<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; "><h2 class="title" itemprop="itemreviewed" style="color: rgb(248, 128, 0); font-size: 1.583em; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 42px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; ">A Sourdough Story</h2><div style="min-height: 570px; margin-top: 20px; "><div class="KonaBody"><p style="font-size: 1.167em; line-height: 1.5; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 21px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hark to the Sourdough story, told at sixty below,<br>When the pipes are lit and we smoke and spit<br>Into the campfire glow.<br>Rugged are we and hoary, and statin' a general rule,<br>A genooine Sourdough story<br>Ain't no yarn for the Sunday School.<br><br>A Sourdough came to stake his claim in Heav'n one morning early.<br>Saint Peter cried: "Who waits outside them gates so bright and pearly?"<br>"I'm recent dead," the Sourdough said, "and crave to visit Hades,<br>Where haply pine some pals o' mine, includin' certain ladies."<br>Said Peter: "Go, you old Sourdough, from life so crooly riven;<br>And if ye fail to find their trail, we'll have a snoop round Heaven."<br><br>He waved, and lo! that old Sourdough dropped down to Hell's red spaces;<br>But though 'twas hot he couldn't spot them old familiar faces.<br>The bedrock burned, and so he turned, and climbed with footsteps fleeter,<br>The stairway straight to Heaven's gate, and there, of course, was Peter.<br>"I cannot see my mates," sez he, "among those damned forever.<br>I have a hunch some of the bunch in Heaven I'll discover."<br>Said Peter: "True; and this I'll do (since Sourdoughs are my failing)<br>You see them guys in Paradise, lined up against the railing -<br>As bald as coots, in birthday suits, with beards below the middle . . .<br>Well, I'll allow you in right now, if you can solve a riddle:<br>Among that gang of stiffs who hang and dodder round the portals,<br>Is one whose name is know to Fame - it's Adam, first of mortals.<br>For quiet's sake he makes a break from Eve, which is his Madame. . . .<br>Well, there's the gate - To crash it straight, just spy the guy that's Adam."<br><br>The old Sourdough went down the row of greybeards ruminatin'<br>With optics dim they peered at him, and pressed agin the gratin'.<br>In every face he sought some trace of our ancestral father;<br>But though he stared, he soon despaired the faintest clue to gather.<br>Then suddenly he whooped with glee: "Ha! Ha! an inspiration."<br>And to and fro along the row he ran with animation.<br>To Peter, bold he cried: "Behold, all told there are eleven.<br>Suppose I fix on Number Six - say Boy! How's that for Heaven?"<br><br>"By gosh! you win," said Pete. "Step in. But tell me how you chose him.<br>They're like as pins; all might be twins. There's nothing to disclose him."<br>The Sourdough said: "'Twas hard; my head was seething with commotion.<br>I felt a dunce; then all at once I had a gorgeous notion.<br>I stooped and peered beneath each beard that drooped like fleece of mutton.<br>My search was crowned. . . . That bird I found - ain't got no belly button." <br></p></div><div class="poet" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 1.417em; margin-top: 22px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; ">Robert William Service</div></div></span><div><div>On Oct 22, 2012, at 12:02 PM, Tom Hansen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><span><553773_286536678124814_475446205_n.jpg></span><br><br>Seeya at the polls, Moscow, because . . .<br><br>"Moscow Cares"<br><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a><br><br>Tom Hansen<br>Moscow, Idaho<br><br>"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."<br><br>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)<br><br><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br> http://www.fsr.net<br> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>=======================================================</div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>