I was sent this today and I thought you might enjoy it. Maggie A guy buys a brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee for $38,000 and has $600+ monthly payments.  He and a friend go duck hunting and of course, this being January, all the lakes are frozen.  These two guys go to the lake with the guns, the dog, the beer and of course the new vehicle.  They drive out onto the lake ice and get ready. Now, they want to make some kind of a natural landing area for the ducks, something for the decoys to float on.  In order to make a hole large enough to look like something a wandering duck would fly down and land on, it is going to take a little more effort than an ice-fishing-hole drill. So, out of the back of the new Grand Cherokee comes a stick of dynamite, the kind with a short, 40-second fuse.  Now these two rocket scientists DO have enough brains to consider how to place the stick of dynamite on the ice at a location far from where they (and the new Jeep) are standing. They don't want to take the risk of slipping on the ice when they run from the burning fuse and possibly go up in smoke with the resulting blast, so they decide to light this 40-second fuse and throw the dynamite. Remember a couple of paragraphs back when I mentioned the vehicle, the beer, the guns and the dog?  Yes, the dog: A highly trained Black Lab used for retrieving; they especially love to retrieve things thrown by the owner. You guessed it, the dog takes off at a high rate of doggy speed on the ice and captures the stick of dynamite with the burning 40-second fuse about the time it hits the ice. The two men yell, scream, wave arms and wonder what to do now. The dog, cheered on by this, keeps coming.    One of the guys grabs his shotgun and shoots the dog. The shotgun is loaded with #8 duck shot, hardly big enough to stop a Black Lab. The dog slows for a moment, slightly confused, but continues on. Another shot and this time the dog, still standing, becomes really confused and of course is terrified, thinking these two Nobel Prize winners have gone insane. The dog, being probably the smarted pencil in this particular box, takes off to find cover.......under the brand-new Cherokee.    ----BOOM!---- Dog and Cherokee are blown to bits and sink to the bottom of the lake in a very large hole, leaving the two idiots standing there with an "I can't believe this happened" look on their faces. The insurance company says that sinking a vehicle in a lake by the use of illegal explosives is not covered and refuses to hear of paying.  The owner of the Jeep had yet to make the first of those $600+ a month payments!! And you thought your day was not going well!

I loved this Maggie. I don't know whether or not it is true but I wouldn't be surprised. Jean in NS ----- Original Message ----- From: <MagsB1942@aol.com> To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:57 AM Subject: [NTH-ENG] A brand new car, a gundog and............. I was sent this today and I thought you might enjoy it. Maggie A guy buys a brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee for $38,000 and has $600+ monthly payments. He and a friend go duck hunting and of course, this being January, all the lakes are frozen. These two guys go to the lake with the guns, the dog, the beer and of course the new vehicle. They drive out onto the lake ice and get ready. Now, they want to make some kind of a natural landing area for the ducks, something for the decoys to float on. In order to make a hole large enough to look like something a wandering duck would fly down and land on, it is going to take a little more effort than an ice-fishing-hole drill. So, out of the back of the new Grand Cherokee comes a stick of dynamite, the kind with a short, 40-second fuse. Now these two rocket scientists DO have enough brains to consider how to place the stick of dynamite on the ice at a location far from where they (and the new Jeep) are standing. They don't want to take the risk of slipping on the ice when they run from the burning fuse and possibly go up in smoke with the resulting blast, so they decide to light this 40-second fuse and throw the dynamite. Remember a couple of paragraphs back when I mentioned the vehicle, the beer, the guns and the dog? Yes, the dog: A highly trained Black Lab used for retrieving; they especially love to retrieve things thrown by the owner. You guessed it, the dog takes off at a high rate of doggy speed on the ice and captures the stick of dynamite with the burning 40-second fuse about the time it hits the ice. The two men yell, scream, wave arms and wonder what to do now. The dog, cheered on by this, keeps coming. One of the guys grabs his shotgun and shoots the dog. The shotgun is loaded with #8 duck shot, hardly big enough to stop a Black Lab. The dog slows for a moment, slightly confused, but continues on. Another shot and this time the dog, still standing, becomes really confused and of course is terrified, thinking these two Nobel Prize winners have gone insane. The dog, being probably the smarted pencil in this particular box, takes off to find cover.......under the brand-new Cherokee. ----BOOM!---- Dog and Cherokee are blown to bits and sink to the bottom of the lake in a very large hole, leaving the two idiots standing there with an "I can't believe this happened" look on their faces. The insurance company says that sinking a vehicle in a lake by the use of illegal explosives is not covered and refuses to hear of paying. The owner of the Jeep had yet to make the first of those $600+ a month payments!! And you thought your day was not going well! ==== NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List ==== Visit the lists Pulse Page here, http://212.19.69.91/north/ --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.230 / Virus Database: 111 - Release Date: 1/25/01