Ken put the popcorn popper out there on a timer for y2k........ set it for
midnight......... simulate the usual drive by shootings in your
hood.........then, lights plus popper - overload, the grid goes
down........glad I have my 12 cords in and my bunker ready   ctb
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Follett <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Friday, December 03, 1999 9:41 AM
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.
>
>I took the comment in good spirit but did manage not to purchase the Frank
J.
>Dobie book I had been eyeing.
>
>I have to say, though, that a few Texans seem a bit edgy about redneck
jokes.
>My brother, an electrician, was wiring up his front lawn with Xmas lights
>while his former neighbor, Billie, was visiting. The last time I met Billie
>he was third degree drunk on pisswater and said he would shoot my Yankee
....
>if not for the fact that he thought my brother a pretty decent import to
the
>Republic. My brother, in Houston, says Billie is from West Texas and they
are
>different out there. My one visit to that parched and inhospitable Western
>region was as a longhaired hitchhiker in the 70's, enough said.
>
>Anyways, we are talking about the load on the wires for the lights and the
>possibility of popping a breaker and I say, "I guess you have to take it
easy
>on the popcorn poppers out on the front lawn." Billie takes offense and
tells
>me to cut the redneck jokes. I then felt compelled to correct the
>stereocoptic vision of NY by explaining that we have our own rednecks up
>North and that Billie will feel just as much at home visiting my yard, so I
>stretch the truth a bit, as sipping ICE beer in my brother's front yard,
>right about then.
>
>Last thing on my mind was slurring the South, I was thinking how when we
run
>the microwave & the popcorn popper at home on LI it blows a breaker, wham
>bang. Upshot of the Texas adventure is that 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. Since we
live
>on a corner lot with three empty corners and a dead streetlamp I think the
>effect of the decoration will comprise a compelling addition to the
suburbs.
>A proper Theocratic Anarchist celebration.
>
>Back to work.
>
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