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From: "Janie Watkins" <>
Subject: RE: [Cmn-L] A challenge
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 18:06:45 -0000
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If the electric goes off Joe - I'm with you all the way - I pray for the
batteries on the laptop to last just that little bit longer.. But loking
back - it's amazing just how much we think items indispensible that
hadn't even been invented when we were younger.

My list of vital items these days include the pc, satellite tv, digital
camera, mobile phone.
I can manage without the car although with a bad back, it's a much
easier way to travel and save lifting luggage everywhere.
Could manage without washing machine - have to manage withut the dryer
cos it's bust - hence the clothes pegs! Manage okay without
centralheating, cos haven't got it. Cable tv hasn't reached the back
streets of old Llanelli. No need of dishwasher, don't need dvd or home
stereo as long as I've got the pc... But electricity has to be the main
thing we just couldn't do without these days.

Mind you America is no different to Wales in the respect that most of
our houses have all the mod cons but by no means all

Janie Watkins

www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk


-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Gregory [mailto:]
Sent: 01 January 2003 17:53
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Subject: [Cmn-L] A challenge


Janie, reading your story makes me ever so thankful and grateful to the
late George Taylor and John Evans, my gt. grandfathers and to George
Gregory, my late grandfather for packing up what little they had and
hitting the treacherous "High Seas" for America and they knew not what.
I'm not into "putting-up-with". "Coping" isn't my style. If our cable TV
goes out for a few minutes, or on those rare occasions, heaven forefend,
that the electricity goes off, I'm a nervous wreck, stumbling about the
house trying to think of what I can do with myself until the power comes
back on. I think I was born at exactly the right time. I'm old enough to
remember the 1940s and I know that I wouldn't want, no, I COULDN'T cope
with what was, even though, because of my parents, for me, life was
always good. But I don't want to go "back".

In order to put us in a good mood here's my "poetic" offering.

Another year has come and gone, I don't know how or where.
But just last week, or so it seems, we survived the dreaded "Y2K"
scare. That turned out to be a hoax, a fraud by who knows who. That
everything wouldn't fail, became our heartfelt hope. Because computers
rule the world and they just couldn't cope. But then that fear turned
out to be nothing much at all. Absolutely nothing happened, when New
York dropped its ball. The lights stayed on, the airplanes flew and the
world moved on. "Y2K" was just a hoax and we were just its pawn. So now
we'll have to come up with, a brand new "dread" or "fear", To scare the
kids and oldsters and fill our thoughts this year. Could it be a plague,
unleashed by mideast loonies? Or an attack by militia groups, camped out
in the "boonies". So this will be your challenge, to invent something
groovy. And win a trip to Hollywood, to star when they make the movie.

Happy New Year
Joe Gregory




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