Phil,

lol. I'mlaughing. You are so funny! <grin> lol.

Love,
Pat Ferguson



At 07:31 PM 12/22/03 -0700, you wrote:
>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.