On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 08:16:04 -0700, Dan Rempel <drempel@hurtly_flurty>
brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>Michael Cash wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 08:26:11 -0400, Kevin Gowen
>> <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets
>> inscribed:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Actually, I was mistaken. It was a Humane Society questionnaire, not
>>>PETA's. It takes him nine words to tell you where he had his favorite pet.
>>>http://www.humaneusa.org/2004_presidential/question/jkerry_2004.pdf
>>>"When I was serving on a swiftboat in Vietnam..."
>>
>>
>> At first, I thought you were joking. But the guy is such a parody of
>> himself that it would be gilding the lily.
>>
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> "When I was serving on a swiftboat in Vietnam, my crewmates and I had
>> a dog we called VC. We all took care of him, and he stayed with us and
>> loved riding on the swiftboat deck. I think he provided all of us with
>> a link to home and a few moments of peace and tranquility during a
>> dangerous time. One day as our swiftboat was heading up a river, a
>> mine exploded hard under our boat. After picking ourselves up, we
>> discovered VC was MIA. Several minutes of frantic search followed
>> after which we thought we'd lost him. We were relieved when another
>> boat called asking if we were missing a dog. It turns out VC was
>> catapulted from the deck of our boat and landed confused, but unhurt,
>> on the deck of another boat in our patrol."
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Well.....maybe this explains the time when other swiftvets say Kerry's
>> boat was the only one to flee the scene following a mine explosion. He
>> wasn't running away. He was just looking for his dog.
>
>This is going to be a pretty interesting election; glad I don't have to
>vote.

I thought it very revealing that Kerry seemed not to know the name of
his current pet parakeet.




--

Michael Cash

"I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of
a high school transcript."

                                Dr. Howard Sprague
                                Dean of Admissions
                                Mount Pilot College