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Just a Joke...Absolutely no LBC

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Subject: Just a Joke...Absolutely no LBC
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:20:32 EDT
Cc: Tedgar5555@cs.com, lwilliams@acaciapark.com, LynchCELynch@aol.com, MEGHouston@aol.com, dbristow5@home.com, DDorman@skychefs.com
Red Shirt
 ---------
 Long ago, when sailing ships ruled the waves, a captain and his
 crew were in danger of being boarded by a pirate ship. As the crew
 became frantic, the captain bellowed to his First Mate, "Bring me my
 red shirt!". The First Mate quickly retrieved the captain's red shirt,
 which the captain put on and lead the crew to battle the pirate
 boarding party. Although some casualties occurred among the crew, the
 pirates were repelled.

 Later that day, the lookout screamed that there were two pirate
 vessels sending boarding parties. The crew cowered in fear, but the
 captain calm as ever bellowed, "Bring me my red shirt!". The battle
 was on, and once again the Captain and his crew repelled both boarding
 parties, although this time more casualties occurred.

 Weary from the battles, the men sat around on deck that night
 recounting the day's occurrences when an ensign looked to the Captain
 and asked,  "Sir, why did you call for your red shirt before the
 battle?".

 The Captain, giving the ensign a look that only a captain
 can give, exhorted, "If I am wounded in battle, the red shirt does not
 show the wound and thus, you men will continue to fight unafraid". The
 men sat in silence marveling at the courage of such a man.

 As dawn came the next morning, the lookout screamed that there
 were pirate ships, 10 of them, all with boarding parties on their way.
 The men became silent and looked to their Captain for his usual
 command.

 The Captain, calm as ever, bellowed, "Bring me my brown pants!"




Robert Houston
Santa Teresa, NM
'74 Midget
63 TR4
.."America, be strong. My love and sympathy is with all of you. God bless
America."bMohan Velayudhan of Kuala Lumpur, author of <A
HREF="http://www.iuniverse.com/marketplace/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0%2
D595%2D14511%2D6&linkid=em100101">Naked in a Sandstorm</A>



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