Friends Report on May 13

We went for a swell evening with DASHMANN and SKUZZA to see Asleep At The Wheel, at the Ark in Ann Arbor. It was a great time. The dinner beforehand was good, the music was fun, and the company cheerful and witty. It was a little chilly in Ann Arbor, but the University town atmosphere of Main Street is wonderful despite the degrees. Now that spring has come to Michigan, there is some hope that we'll have a really good summer.

That's my hope for all of you.
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BUD - bumper sticker seen: Guns Don't Kill People! Fathers with beautiful daughters do.

GIGI- recommends this article by Maureen Dowd about Elizabeth Edwards -- and, particularly, husband John's affair. CLICK

DASHMANN - suggests that it's possible that the surgical mask manufacturers are behind the swine flu scare.

IRISH MIKE - reports that despite the bad economy, his son has suddenly received a good summer job thanks to the President's "stimulus package." So, in this one corner, it's beginning to work.

PAT W - advises this: Don't ever go to Parkersburg West Virginia. It's an awful place. It's kind of a dirty little valley to begin with and then some engineer has screwed everything up with a nightmare road system.

LINDA - regaled the coffee club with this story: When she told her mother that she was planning on going to Paris, her mother was astounded. "You don't want to go there. Your Dad went there and he hated it." Retort: "That was during the war. Everyone hated it!"

JERRY- forwards an email he received advising us all top start buying more American made products. There is a simple way to do this: So my challenge to you is to start reading the labels when you shop for everyday things and see what you can find that is made in the USA - the job you save may be your own or your neighbor's!

MIKE THE ADMINISTRATOR - tells a joke that got him booed: What do you name a child born between cannons on a British war ship? A "son of a gun.." His membership in the human race is now being reconsidered.

LIAM - has started turning over.

SANDY - is to become a grandmother. It's already identified as a boy.

SPARTY - recommends a fun but pointed opinion from the New Yorker Magazine which suggests that there are some advantages to letting the southern states secede again as the Governor of Texas has suggested. EXCERPT:

A more intimately sized Congress would briskly enact sensible gun control, universal health insurance, and ample support for the arts, the humanities, and the sciences.

CLICK FOR ARTICLE
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BILL FROM WNNCO- forwards this joke:
It was once said that a black man would be president “when pigs fly.”
Indeed, 100 days into Obama’s presidency…. Swine Flu
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Some more snapshots

MARSHA modeling new "garden party" outfit:


It's just a joke, arranged by Grandpa


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