[Rhodes22-list] Source of 'this one'

[Wally Buck]

Bill,

I got a chuckle from your response. :-)

My attention span is somewhat short, I didn't finish it either.....

Wally


>From: "Bill Effros" <bill at effros.com>
>Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Source of 'this one'
>Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 13:18:12 -0400
>
>Michael,
>
>It was a bit long, so I didn't slog through to the part where we discover 
>it was Clinton's fault.  In fact, it didn't even register that the 
>"Crockett" referenced in the piece was one of the suicide enemy combatants 
>who attempted to sieze part of a sovern nation in an effort to set up a 
>terrorist stronghold.
>
>Nonetheless, I'm glad you care.
>
>Bill
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Michael Meltzer
>To: kroposki at innova.net ; The Rhodes 22 mail list
>Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 9:48 AM
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Source of 'this one'
>
>
>I got it from my "standard joke channel", It was to good :-) expressly for 
>this hornets nest, so I used the same standards that the
>New York Times uses and did not check :-) and figured Bill would nail me in 
>"urbane legends". why should facts get in the way of a
>good story :-)
>
>
>Well I just did a search on goggle with the opening line "CROCKETT was then 
>the lion of Washington", and found this book reface(in a
>few places)
>
>NOTE: The following essay, which frequently circulates the Internet and is 
>therefore believed in the public domain, is from The Life
>of Colonel David Crockett, compiled by Edward S. Elis and first published 
>in 1884. The narrator, who is unidentified, apparently
>served in Congress with Crockett sometime during 1827-1835.
>
>
>Now I would say that the book was written 50 years after the story, so it 
>might be a 1800's "urbane legend". I did not try to back
>trake it futher.
>
>MJM
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kroposki" <kroposki at innova.net>
>To: "'The Rhodes 22 mail list'" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 9:11 AM
>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Source of 'this one'
>
>
> > Michael,
> > What was the source of 'this one'?
> >                                           Ed K
> >
> >
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