> -----Original Message-----
> From: BP - "Shinola Heretics United" On Behalf Of Ken Follett
> Sent: December 3, 1999 8:29 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: That, sir, was no lady.
>
>
> In a message dated 12/2/99 5:08:28 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> writes:
>
> > That, sir, was no lady.
>
> My one visit to that parched and inhospitable Western
> region was as a longhaired hitchhiker in the 70's, enough said.

So...you _have_ spent a lot of time in West Texas then....

> I've decided to do a lawn
> decoration for the Holiday season consisting of an aluminum lawn
> chair frame
> traced with little Xmas lights, sort of like those lawn deer you
> see sold in
> the garden shops, to be suspended say about 30' up in the air.

I suggest you suspend it from a weather balloon with its lift carefully
calibrated to balance the weight of the chair.  It can then become a real
conversation piece:  Roslyn meets Roswell.  But check your numbers twice;
might otherwise be too newsworthy an item as an entry for the Darwin Awards.

Will you be including a custom lawn ornament with this?  I'm thinking of a
thirty foot tall rubber-clad metal-wire beer can holder.  Red of course.
Surely with your contacts fabrication will be no problem.
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Dan Becker,  Executive Director      "Conformists die, but
Raleigh Historic                              heretics live on forever"
Districts Commission                             -- Elbert Hubbard
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