Lois, That does it! I've GOT to have some of that coffee you drink! Sharon ---------- > From: Lois Arthur <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [RAMEY-L] Re: Rameys and Whaleys > Date: Monday, August 24, 1998 05:00 PM > > > > :Hello,: > : I think I have figured out why some on the mailing list are upset with > the > : Whaley obits. I can do this because I am a highly intelligent > Know-It-All. > : Here goes: In prehistoric times, we all lived in small family clans of > : about 30 or 40 individuals. The entire population of the earth about > : 100,000 years ago was only in the thousands. Life was easy. Everyone > you > : saw was someone you knew or was related to. In the morning, the women > : would clean the cave, suckle their babies (they were probably cute hairy > : little things) and the men would go out for a days work of herding > : thousands of mammoths off a cliff to obtain the meat of a few. Life was > : good. > : Then things began to change. Population of the planet grew. Now instead > : of just thousands of us, there are billions of us. Finally, we were > forced > : to live in hugh communities of people we did not know and, worse yet, > were > : not related to. The clan was gone, but the need for a clan remain. > : These surname mailing lists, like Ramey, fulfills our need for the clan. > : With these lists, we are a small group of related people, sharing the > same > : ancestors, communicating with e-mail instead of grunts, and basically, > when > : we are accessing our Ramey mailing list, we are back with the clan and > life > : is good again. > : In prehistoric times, when another clan crossed the territory of the > : resident clan, war would ensure. Other clans were looked upon with fear > : and chased out. That is what has happened with the introduction of the > : Whaley obits into the Ramey mailing list. Some feel that an alien clan > has > : invaded their territory. We are at was with the Whaleys > : Well, there it is, my explaination of the Whaley obit controversy. What > do > : you think? Remeber all you Rameys cousins, those nasty old Whaleys can't > : hurt us, they are all dead. For that matter, all our Rameys on the list > : are dead too. > : In the far distant future, one of our decendents can get even. They can > : sat down at their 2000 MB Ram Computer, turn on their Windows 2198, > access > : the Universal Web, turn on their e-mail and send our obits right to the > : Whaley mailing list. In the meantime, enjoy the obits we are getting. > : They are very interesting and I like them. Thanks > : Lois Arthur > : [email protected] > : > : > : > : > : > : > : > :