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From: "Pat Brewer" <>
Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] OFF SUBJECT
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 19:40:13 -0600
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Michael, You are too much. Do you moonlight as a stand up comedian??? I
think you'd be good. Let me know when you try it - Yakima isn't that far
away, this I would have to see.
Pat


Subject: Re: [ARIZARD-L] OFF SUBJECT


> Having put 24 years in the grocery business before I started carrying
mail,
> leaves one with a few "bad" work-habits...one is scanning the shelf for
the
> range of product representation...in the canned meat section
> right next to the SPAM is SPAM LIGHT (Now what is that all about?)...
> then next to that is TURKEY SPAM, (I didn't think that it could get more
> foul!!)
> Also saw SMOKED SPAM (but not inhaled...would that be Presidential SPAM?)
> Mike C.
> P.S. Do you think when that Spam recipe was being circulated through the
> Pacific Fleet in 1944...That the Navy Bigwigs knew then, what the term
SPAM
> would come to mean today in this Internet World, and how it got that way?
LOL
>
> At 19:49 6/2/01 -0400, you wrote:
> >In a message dated 6/2/01 1:04:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > writes:
> >
> ><<
> > Just had to butt in. I had a Spam recipe when they were small that I
made
> > them eat about once a month. The meat was grounded up and used as you
would
> > to make meat loaf and for some reason seems like I always served it
with
> > green lima beans. >>
> >
> >I have my old war ration book and none of the stamps have been torn out.
I
> >was born in 44. We had plenty as had 8 kids at the time and all had
books.
> >Daddy helped build ordinance plants so he got tires:) I worked at the
same
> >ordinance plant he helped build for W.W.II, I worked in during Nam:) I
> >remember kids on welfare getting gallon cans of Spam when I was in
college,
> >they would bring it from home and I would trade them hamburger and
hot-dogs
> >and such for their Spam. I never got to eat Spam and they hated it and I
> >would cut off big slabs and eat it. It was delicious but for some
reason, I
> >can't work up the appetite for it I had back then:) LOL Juanita
> >
> >
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