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From: Baxter Culver <vinracr@co.sacramento.ca.us>
To: baxter culver <peyote222@dellnet.com>; donna butler
<donnab@co.sacramento.ca.us>; george waite <bhgunshop@aol.com>; Jerry
Reynolds <reynold3@ix.netcom.com>; john o'farrrell
<johno@gw.co.sacramento.ca.us>; Paige Talley <Ptalley@cpha.com>; Pamela Oto
<Pamela.Oto@SEN.CA.GOV>; Paula Chafey <pchafey@earthlink.com>; robert
holderness <RHoldern@aol.com>; theo cline <theodate.cline@asm.ca.gov>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 4:29 PM
Subject: (no subject)
> A hip young man goes out and buys the best car available: a 1999
> Ferrari GTO. It is also the most expensive car in the world, and it
> costs him $500,000.
>
> He takes it out for a spin and stops for a red light. An old man on a
> moped (both looking about 75 years old) pulls up next to him.
>
> The old man looks over the sleek, shiny car and asks, "What kind of car
> ya' got there sonny?
>
> "It's a Ferrari and worth a half-million dollars!"
> "That's a lot of money," says the old man. "Why does it cost so much?"
> "Because this car can do up to 320 miles an hour!" stated the young
> dude proudly.
> The moped driver asks, "Mind if I take a look inside?"
> "No problem," replies the owner. So the old man pokes his head in the
> window and looks around.
> Then, sitting back on his moped, the old man says,
> "That's a pretty nice car, all right!"
> Just then the light changes so the guy decides to show th old man just
> what his car can do. He floors it and within 30 seconds the speedometer
> reads 160 mph.
> Suddenly, he notices a dot in his rear view mirror.
> It seems to be getting closer! He slows down to see what it could be
> and suddenly, whhooooosssshhh! something whips by him, going much
> faster!
> "What on earth could that be, going faster than my Ferrari?" the young
> man asks himself.
> Then, ahead of him, he sees a dot coming toward him. Whhooooooosh!
> It goes by headed in the opposite direction! And it looks like th old
> man on the moped!
> "Couldn't be," thinks the guy. "How could a moped outrun a Ferrari?"
> But, again, he sees a dot in his rear view mirror!
> Whoooooosh,
> Ka-Bbbblammm! It plows into the back of his car, demolishing the rear
> end.
> The young man jumps out, and it is the old man!!!
> He runs up to the mangled old man and says, "Oh my goodness! Is there
> anything I can do for you?"
> The old man whispers with his dying breath,
> "Unhook.....my suspenders.........from your side-view mirror......."
>
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