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Date:    Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:09:48 -0700
From:    Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: re. Gary Lee curtain rod?

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The downside is that the women in the house are making fun of me now
like I'm some kind of nancy boy: making bread, sewing. I point out that
none of them know how to do that -- hoping to insult their very
womanhooditude, but they are unfazed.

So I'm gonna hook a leafblower engine to the sewing machine. That'll
shut 'em up. I hope.

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So when I went there they taught me to mop floors, perfectly or do it again,
same for washing dishes, pots, pans, making beds so tight you can bounce a
quarter on 'em, wash windows, sew on buttons, clean toilets and showers so
clean you can eat...well almost.

Back then the Army built men.  Be proud, Rocket.