In a message dated 1/15/2000 7:08:55 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< Note from Hayseed country:  That may be concrete in 'at 'ar truck but it's
 a CEMENT MIXER.
    It's  probably technically a concrete mixer (anybody got the
instructions?)
    but commonly called a cement mixer.  Not that we think of you as
common, Ruth.
 Guess if you mix cement, pronounced SEEment, with whatever
 you mix it with, it becomes concrete.
    You are entirely, 100% correct.
 BTW:  What is cement and where does  it come from?
    It's made from stuff.
 I know it doesn't grow on trees, does it?
    Not generally, but there are concrete trees, and fiberglass trees at the
Bronx Zoo--oops, I mean zoological garden, in the new minkey house, or
Congoland (with Congoleum floors?) or whatever they call it.

 Ruth
  >>
    Come to think of it, I have a cousin named Ruth, too.  But I doubt female
    persons from South Georgia would be attending cotillions up yonder in
Vermont, so you may not be the same person after all.

    Ralph