Woo Hoo, Phil.  Slap happy new year!

Vicki

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 7:31 PM
Subject: Mash


> Speaking of Mash, can anybody remember the Mash where Frank Burns comes up
> with a new mouse trap?  He goes through this long explanation of how it
> works and it is a contraption that has an arm the comes down and taps the
> mouse on the shoulder after he sees himself in a mirror, or some crazy
> thing?  Anyhow, I got to thinking about that reading Chris's explanation
of
> how he re mastered Brad's song and suddenly realized that's why I have put
> off learning how to record like that.  I understood the words Chris used,
I
> just ended up totally amazed that he could remember it all.  Then I
> remembered that mash show with Frank Burns making the mouse trap and
somehow
> the two things made sense and that's what scares me.  It must be the
season
> or something because somehow, after having a huge family fight last night
> and loosing the argument, this is what I get for being 51 years old and
> trying to win an argument with a 21 year old, I realized it must be the
> smell of Christmas trees or something in the air.  Did you hear about the
> guy they caught who, some place in the northern United States, cut the
topes
> off of pine trees so they would look like Christmas trees and shipped them
> to the East coast and sold them?  He shipped 27,000 trees he cut out of a
> national forest.  I could just see this guy climbing these tall pine trees
> here in the mountains of Colorado and hanging from 70 or 80 feet off the
> ground and cutting off the top 8 feet of 27,000 trees.  Man, somebody
should
> hire that guy because he is a busy little beaver and can really put out
the
> work.  And to think my sister said I was mentally ill two years ago and
said
> I should be put into a psych hospital.  Maybe I'll start my own movement
> called CFJ and start selling necklaces and bracelets with CFJ engraved on
> them.  Better yet, I could start doing Christian tattoos that have a cross
> and CFJ printed in the tattoo.  Say, that is some idea I just had.  I have
> an office with a separate entrance for prayer sessions here at the house.
I
> could do tattoos on the side and make a fortune.  Oh, what does CFJ stand
> for?  Well, you know, the WWJD What Would Jesus Do thing that was so
popular
> for awhile?  CFJ is my version of it.  Crazy For Jesus.  Far out, man.  I
> knew that LSD would catch up with me eventually and to think they said it
> would never pay off, too.  It just shows to go you how people can be wrong
> even though they think they are right.  Can you dig it?  While I'm on the
> subject, do you know what Midwestern hip farmers say instead of far out?
> Farm out.  That joke alone proves I am crazy for Jesus.  I'm going to see
> that sister tomorrow, she is my oldest sister, and tell her about my new
> ministry and see if she will be the first person to sign up for a CFJ
> tattoo.  She is 62 years old but I bet she joins up.  I wonder if there is
a
> way I can do tattoos via email.  If so, using pay pal and a collection of
> two billion spammed email addresses, I could be rich over night.  Merry
> Christmas.
>
> Phil.
>