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Old April 14th 10, 05:13 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
Pat Flannery
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On 4/13/2010 4:52 PM, David Spain wrote:


But I reckon you'all can keep Ol' Yeller Aries if I kin get me some
more o them victuals and you'll trade me that there ol horny toad
Soyuz for 'em.

But then Ol' Aries falls victim to rabid cost overruns, and poor
Obama takes the family gun and puts us all out of misery....

Poor Ol' Aries, I ain't never want no program agin....


"Now who can argue with that? I think we're all in debt to David Spain
for stating what needed to be said. I am particularly glad that younger
newsgroup readers are here today to read that speech. Not only was it
authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed the courage little seen in
this day and age." ;-)

Pat Johnson