I LIKE being related to the Rameys, albeit via the Whaley intrusion on the clan grounds... way back when... tee hee hee... you are a great group for the mostest part... and have a bit of humor to make it all worth while.....J. <>< -----Original Message----- From: Lois Arthur [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 24, 1998 10:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [RAMEY-L] Re: Rameys and Whaleys :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] : : : : : : : :