In a message dated 11/28/2002 6:45:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:


Ralph,  Is this your first invitation?  Yes, and I was SO excited about it until you rained on my Thanksgiving Day parade! I get them weekly, not always from the same relative of a big cheese, but from some relative of some big
cheese in some far away place.  Always with a hard luck story about bad
guys wanting to get their hands on the dead big cheese's millions or
billions--who's counting.  Funny but this farm girl just isn't interested
in all that loot.  How short sighted of you.  It's just too much trouble, I got news for ya-- I see most everything as too muhc trouble. and besides, charity begins at home.  Please don't squander all our hard earned dues just to, MAYBE,
get some loot for our pensions which are a LOOOOOONNNNNGGGGGG way off. Not to worry about your penny-ante pensions---our boy Dubya is investing them safely with his friends on Wall Street so that he can cut their taxes and more will come back to you. 

And why would anybody want a home-grown 40 lb turkey when you could drive 15 minutes to the chain grocery store and get a free frozen 10 pounder in exchange for having spend thousands of dollars at the grocery store over the course of a year?

Happy turkey to all, from one who knows from turkeys.

Ralph