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#70939 - 04/01/03 01:01 PM
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I thought of going to my boss and telling him I quit and then say April Fool but then I thought he might just say have a nice life. Of course sometimes it would be nice to have a job at the McDonald's counter and not have to worry about anything but the next order.
So what was the best April Fools you ever did or were the fool on?
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#70940 - 04/01/03 01:12 PM
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Although I wasn't involved in this one, I think it's hysterical. There was a practical joker where I used to work and he played jokes on everyone. One day several of the employees decided to get even. The joker drives a Miata, so some of the employees lifted it up enough so the wheels were just barely off of the ground and it wasn't noticeable. They had the President of the bank call the joker and tell him that they needed to go to one of the branches and that the joker needed to pick him up in 5 minutes in front of the bank. Needless to say he flew to his car and couldn't go anywhere. This was about 4 years ago and they're still laughing at that bank. 
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#70941 - 04/01/03 01:31 PM
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That's a good one! At my old office, (I was the practical joker), last summer when I just got my brand new car, someone (and they still won't fess up) took my keys and moved my car to a different parking lot. Of course, I never locked my car and they knew this. So, when I was leaving for home, I thought it was stolen. I was dialing the police dept when they stopped me and showed me where it was.
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#70942 - 04/01/03 01:41 PM
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I played a belated April fools joke on a co-worker several years ago. I was leaving a branch where I had worked as manager for about 10 years. My assistant was taking over and was very nervous. I typed up an official looking memo from HR saying that we were doing a mandatory bank wide drug screening and that branch managers were responsible for collecting "samples" from their staff. I went into great detail about how the "samples" were to be collected and witnessed by the branch managers and that the collection jars would be sent later that afternoon. The look on her face as she read it was priceless!
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#70943 - 04/01/03 01:48 PM
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I was given a message to call Mr. Lyon asap about a very important compliance issue. I called. It was the Washington Zoo number.
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#70944 - 04/01/03 01:56 PM
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You would think writing this post I would be a pretty quick wipper snapper and not fall for any jokes, but while I was listening to the radio they had Jerry Sienfield on and he said he was coming in for a show....you had to call for tickets and they were free. He said he wouldn't say where the show was but you had to call to get the tickets. I called and got a busy signal, then called again and got a disconnected phone number....then I realized I have been fooled. Oh well, can't be on top of things all the time, especially when you are working on reviewing arbitrage's!
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#70947 - 04/01/03 02:56 PM
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One of the best April Fools jokes I heard of was travel related. At LA X airport they erected a sign, "Welcome to O'Hair". You just know a lot of people had heart attacks at that.
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#70948 - 04/01/03 02:58 PM
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The car-related stories remind me of a prank once played on a college friend. He had recently acquired his first car, a modest sedan, but he was very proud of it and kept it spotless. One weekend, other students went to a junkyard and found a total wreck of the same make, model and color. They chipped in and purchased the wreck and had it transported to the parking space normally occupied by my friend's car (which had been moved for the occasion.) The pranksters sat back and waited for my friend to go to his car.
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#70950 - 04/01/03 03:29 PM
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At the old branch where I used to work, there was a pay phone in the parking lot across the street where people would often wait for phone calls. We had endless fun on slow days calling these people and watching them from the branch! One particular day there was a guy who pulled his car up to the phone and sat there all morning and waited for it to ring. I finally called him and asked to speak with Joe. He said this is a pay phone and I told him I knew that that Joe should be there waiting for my call. He said there was no one there. I described a car near the phone and said he might be in there. He told me he didn't see anyone in it and I told him to check the back seat that he may be sleeping! We had a lot of fun that day with him!
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#70952 - 04/01/03 03:39 PM
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When I was 10 my father and I played a joke on my mother. He and I were coming home from church and decided to fake an accident. We parked up in the cemetary (that my parents live near), walked closer to home. My father started to "cry" and I became unconscience as my father carried me home. Telling my mom that we had been into a car accident ect. She about had a heart attack while calling 911. Then I miraculously came to and said April Fools! She didn't talk to us for the rest of the day!
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#70954 - 04/01/03 04:20 PM
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Talk about an April fool. I started my banking career 23 years ago today - 4/1/1980, while still in college.  Maybe, I should have picked another profession . . . Time for a virtual anniversary party. Umbrella drinks for those who like them, and wine for me, Dawnie, Al, and any other wino out there!!!! 
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#70955 - 04/01/03 05:08 PM
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A few minutes ago, I heard my assistant, right outside my office, call the Loan Operations Manager and proceed to impersonate a hiring manager from a competing bank, requesting information on one of her best employees. She fell for it hook, line and sinker.
She figured it out a few minutes later. We've all informed him that we will be laughing quite hard when she takes her revenge.
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#70956 - 04/01/03 06:01 PM
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A co-worker and I several years ago on April fools filled a secretaries desk drawers with packing peanuts while she was out. Needless to say when she got back to get something out of her desk she had quite the surprise.
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#70958 - 04/01/03 06:17 PM
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It has been an extremely weird April Fools Day around here. First we had a branch give a customer the dye pack in their change order (went off in the parking lot) and now we have a branch totally without power. Sounds like gremlins at work to me.
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#70959 - 04/01/03 06:25 PM
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Woo Hoo Jules! 23 years...are you nuts? Hee hee Ya'll will be shocked the hear that I've pulled a practicle joke or 200 in my life (I'm sure you picture a sweet innocent little nice girl)  (who drinks wine alot) My favorite two: I put a tape of frogs croaking in the basement furnace ducts in a 3 story branch I worked at. Though I had to change the batteries all day...I really enjoyed sneaking down because I got the view of everyone looking around their office for the frogs. Because the quiet croaking came through the air vents...everyone's office sounded like they had their own frog invasion  My all time record joke: I paid cash for an add in the newspaper that said "Garage Sale, Saturday morning, April 1st. 6 a.m. to noon. Clean, little used baby items and antiques. If we're not outside yet, please knock" Over 400 cars showed up Half between 5 and 7 am. April Fools Success beyond my wildest dreams!!!
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#70962 - 04/01/03 07:20 PM
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One April Fool I e-mailed all the branch managers and told them their would be a compliance test the next day for all employees on Regulation CC as the examiners where thinking of writing us for many violations. They had one day to study and better pass or we could possible be fined. Needless to say they weren't happy the next day but at least they learned something!
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#70964 - 04/01/03 07:47 PM
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I put a piece of tape over the button on the phone cradle so that when you pick up the phone, it still rings. I hate to say it, but I do this on a regular basis to one of the ladies in the office. Sadly, she always knows who to come after.
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#70965 - 04/01/03 07:53 PM
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If you really want to frustrate someone, you can do this, but you have to do it over a long period. Every day for 'x' amount of weeks, when your target in the bank is out, spread a handful of the little paper dots that come out of a triple hole punch wither on their seat or under their desk or on their desk. Different place each day, but enough that it gets annoying. On the day of your choosing, leave another pile on their seat, but then leave a distinguishable trail of the paper dots throughout the bank ending up at the desk of someone you wish to frame. It helps if you plant the triple hole punch at their desk also!
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#70968 - 04/01/03 08:09 PM
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This one really happened ...we had a guy that continually parked in the handicap spot in front of the building. We didn't serve customers at the time, so wasn't a real issue in his mind. It used to really bug this one woman in our office and she told him that one day he was going to get a ticket. On April fools day last year, she called the cops and they came by the building, walked into his office and asked him to move his vehicle. He thought it was an April fools joke and almost gave them a hassle before realizing they were for real. We got a real good laugh out of that one!!!!
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#70969 - 04/01/03 08:20 PM
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The meanest April Fools joke I know of was perpetrated by my best friend when we were sixteen. He told his dad that his girlfriend was pregnant. His dad turned about three colors in 5 seconds before he had to follow up with "April Fools".
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#70970 - 04/01/03 09:54 PM
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At work today, someone put a few Bud Light's in the pop machine. The first unsuspecting soul was expecting a Diet Dr. Pepper but got a Bud. That was good for a few laughs.
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#70973 - 04/01/03 10:20 PM
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In high school our entire english class conspired to stage an earthquake (This was in Nebraska, but a "scientist" had predicted a huge earthquake for Missouri.) Anyway at the appointed time we all started shaking our desks and yelled earthquake. The teacher grabbed her chest and gasped (I thought we'd killed her!!!) Anyway we all stopped to laugh at her to which she astutely replied - "I wondered why you were all quaking and I wasn't."
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#70975 - 04/01/03 10:52 PM
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When I was in high school each senior class always pulled a senior prank. One year they took apart a car and rebuilt it in the cafeteria. The year I was a senior, they let loose pigeons and rabbits in the cafeteria!
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#70976 - 04/01/03 10:54 PM
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We let greased pigs loose in the hallways. (and hundreds if not thousands of crickets loose in cafeteria)
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#70977 - 04/01/03 11:49 PM
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We put baby chicks in the lockers of all the jocks at the school right after their bus came in from a field trip to the zoo. The principal thought they'd stolen them and they all had to do extra homework writing, I will not steal chickens, or some such thing. I was on the cheer squad and listened to the guys speculate what geek had sent them...all along it was an insider Gotta love it!
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#70978 - 04/02/03 12:25 AM
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We used to do the tape on the phone thing, as well as clear plastic wrap over the toilet. One of my favorites was to put vaseline inside the handle of someones teller drawer while they were out to lunch, or use clear packing tape to tape the drawer completely shut (works for desk drawers too). I have also put scotch tape over their teller and date stamps so that when they stamp all they get is a smear. I also used to tape down the paper feed buttons on adding machines and teller machines, when someone turns them on in the morning, they keep feeding paper until the victim realizes what is hapening. We used to take the cardboard core out of the left over tape rolls on the proof machine and pull the paper out of the center. If you did it right it was like a magicians trick and the entire roll would unwind. We would rig this above a door and the first person through would get a shower of paper tape.
Once at a drive in branch I worked at, we had blinds that we had to pull down after hours. The female branch manager was always good for a laugh or two so we taped a Playgirl centerfold on the inside of the blind so at the end of the day when she pulled it down, she was face to ......well the center fold was there! We pulled some other pranks that I can't mention in this forum, but we always had a really good time!
A couple of classics that I was told about from years before I started:
Tellers used to have to manually encode all of our savings account deposits and withdrawals at the end of the day. The head teller was showing the new guy how to do it, but he added a little something. He rigged a pedal on the floor and told the guy that between every slip he had to stomp the pedal as hard as he could. This supposedly went on for several weeks before someone let him in on the joke.
The same head teller grabbed this guys keys one day and ran across the street to the hardware store and duplicated his car key. The next day on the way to work he stoped at his house and moved his car down the block.
They also did a variation on the drug test where they took those clear glass tubes that cigars come in and gave it to a new female teller and told her she had to "fill" it. Though it would likely bring a lawsuit today, back then the look on her face was supposedly priceless!
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#70980 - 04/02/03 05:55 PM
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I received a copy of the audit report from our BSA audit on April 1st, I had to double check that the "outstanding" rating we received was not a cruel April fools prank! Thankfully the report was dated March 27th!
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#70981 - 04/02/03 06:21 PM
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Well gang, I think you have all outdone yourselves with the practical jokes! I needed a chuckle today as I didn't have much time yesterday. But U just have to tell you that the hole-punch joke is a good one; we 1/2 filled a Sr VP's umbrella with the stuff and when he went outside in the rain, it actually snowed!
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#70982 - 04/02/03 06:36 PM
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Here's an old one.
One loan servicing rep left a note for another loan servicing rep to return a call to a customer yesterday.
The customer's name was Myra Maines. The phone number was to a local funeral home.
The person who answered wasn't happy, they received a number of calls during the day for the same person.
Our employee had now idea she was set up. She called the funeral home back later to apologize.
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#70983 - 04/02/03 06:50 PM
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I couldn't share yesterday...because my victim reads BOL. I sent one of my co-workers a dozen pink and blue ballons with It's a girl and It's a boy on them. The card read...Honey, Guess What? He called his wife in about 4 seconds...then quizzed the office all day to find out who did it Heh heh! (The florist didn't even budge and give him my name LOL)
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#70986 - 04/02/03 08:27 PM
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... spread a handful of the little paper dots that come out of a triple hole punch ....
I took the full collecting tray from a hole punch and filled our secretary's umbrella. It had rained several times in a few days, but didn't rain that night, nor the rest of the week, then she was away for 2 weeks, and it was a month or so later before it rained again, on the way to work. She was hopping mad when she arrived, and guessed right away who had done it.  ....But it was so long since I had filled her umbrella that wondered what on earth she was ranting about.
Another good trick I pulled, and also not on April 1st, was to swap the computer mouses on two back-to-back desks, but not swap the connections; this is best done during the day, after the computers are booted and running some programs. It gets two people, ... double the fun!
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#70987 - 04/02/03 08:41 PM
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Another good trick I pulled, and also not on April 1st, was to swap the computer mouses on two back-to-back desks, but not swap the connections; this is best done during the day, after the computers are booted and running some programs. It gets two people, ... double the fun!
I love it!
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#70989 - 04/03/03 02:07 AM
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Okay - I'm a day late, but here's a joke that a department manager I knew would pull on a new employee:
He would take a micro-cassette recorder fast foward the tape about 15 minutes, then he would start the recorder and record, in a faint voice, a message such as "Help me! I'm trapped in here! Please help!" He would repeat the message, with some variations here and there, with the message getting gradually louder and louder until he was SHOUTING the message into the recorder.
Then, he would rewind to the beginning of the tape. About 5 minutes before the employee was expected to walk in, he would leave the recorder in a bottom drawer and push "Play."
Then he would go back to his office to watch the poor "newbie" get a strange look as he/she realized someone was calling for help!
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#70991 - 04/03/03 08:16 PM
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I'm just now finding the time to read this thread. Some of us have TO WORK FOR A LIVING!! We can't just sit around all day reading BOL!! Just kidding. April fools! Anyway, I'm two days late, but here's a good one that I had fun playing. You must be comfortable with your victim or you might be charged with sexual harrassment, if caught. Find a good ladies lingerie catalog......one with really skimpy stuff on gorgeous ladies with ample body parts. Cut out a picture and place it face up in a male loan officer's lap drawer or any other drawer that he might open when a customer is seated across the desk. Watch him try to pull back in his bug-eyes and stiffle his gasp. But make sure the picture is where the customer won't be able to see it!!!
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#70994 - 04/04/03 10:47 PM
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Just found out about this one today - apparently a young, ornery teller put a "For Sale" sign in his brand new car with some ridiculously low price listed. The phone number was the cell phone for the bank president.
He also rearranged pictures, things on desks, etc. that night - but this one backfired on him. The cleaning people thought the branch had been vandalized and called the president in to look.
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#71004 - 04/07/03 03:02 PM
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#71008 - 04/07/03 03:23 PM
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Our April Fool is happening today
It is snowing to beat the band outside and we are supposed to get about 10 inches of snow.
I'm not sure who needs to be contacted officially,?
But I would like to submit a request that winter ends!!!!!!!!!!!
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#71009 - 04/07/03 03:28 PM
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Tell me about it - I was supposed to be sitting in the sun watching opneing day at Wrigley Field having a couple beverages, and instead I am at work looking at 6 inches of wet, nasty snow on the ground!
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#71010 - 04/07/03 03:28 PM
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Tell me about it - I was supposed to be sitting in the sun watching opneing day at Wrigley Field having a couple beverages, and instead I am at work looking at 6 inches of wet, nasty snow on the ground!
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#71012 - 04/07/03 03:31 PM
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I'm not sure who needs to be contacted officially,?
But I would like to submit a request that winter ends!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm expecting 3-6 inches in my part of the state (and we're well on our way to that.)
Regarding the request, I logged on to Mother Nature's website to request some more seasonal weather, but all of the sunshine was booked to a family reunion near Flagstaff, Arizona.
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#71013 - 04/07/03 03:33 PM
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Where is "Penna.?"
That's what we called "Peeyay" before the postal service gave us standardized two letter state abbreviations.
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#71015 - 04/07/03 03:50 PM
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"Where in Penna?"
Northeast Pa., WE had a few nice days, in the 50's and one actually alomost hit 70, bit now it's back to the 30's and snowing.
This really STINKS!!!!
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#71017 - 04/07/03 04:30 PM
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Rant Warning!!!! About the snow and the schools... I just received a call from my son's "Class Mom" who informed be that they were closing school at 12:40 and someone has to pick up my son. I said: "I can't make it in less than 40 minutes on a good day...". Then she said thet'll keep him until I can get there. Go figure...  in ENJAY
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#71018 - 04/07/03 04:42 PM
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in ENJAY
Maria,
I didn't know it was proper to shorten New Jersey to 'NJ.' I thought the proper short form was 'Joisey.' 
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#71020 - 04/07/03 04:48 PM
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20 feet of the 6 foot wood fence did not.
D.C. math?
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#71021 - 04/07/03 04:50 PM
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Hey..... 20 feet long, 6 feet high. OK, at the moment, it's more like 20 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 2 inches high, since it's flat on the yard.
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#71026 - 04/07/03 08:18 PM
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That was over in the Big D. Here in Lubbock, we had a little wind......otherwise, it was lovely.
Now, now Shirley! Let's not mislead people about the definition of 'a little wind'. Out here in West Texas - that means gusts of less than 50 miles an hour. Anything more than 50 mph would be 'pretty windy'.
There's a good reason why all the trees in West Texas lean in the direction the wind blows. If they were straight, they'd fall over if the wind ever quit blowing.
No, no, Lestie! Now YOU'RE giving the wrong impression. Yes. We have some extreme wind, but there are not that many days out of the year in which it's ultra windy. I'll take the wind as long as I still get pretty spring weather, semi-arid summers, mild autumns and not-too-severe winters (it only snows a couple of days per year....if we're lucky).
It's a great place!! Right Lestie? Right.
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#71027 - 04/07/03 08:31 PM
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No Snow here! It's about 30 and clear as a bell. I can see all the moutains from my office window. Ahhh how nice!
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#71028 - 04/07/03 08:45 PM
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