I posted an abstract about us lending to the crisis. It got deleted, Well! as one ole drunk said "I've been thrown out of better places than this!" That was not the intent. Joke: Man parks his car to go into grocery store, sees a neighbor woman in her parked car, hands behind her head, eyes shut. He buys his groceries, the woman still sits in her car. Only now, her eyes are open, her hands still behind her head. He walks over to her car, He asks "Ma'm, is everything okay?" She says "no, I have been shot in the back of the head, and I am trying to hold my brains in". So he calls the ambulance, they cannot get her to remove her hands from the back of her head. She says she has to "hold her brains in". They finally get her into the emergency room and treat her. The kind neighbor asks about the gun shot. The emergency room technicians tell him there was no gun shot. The lady had bought groceries, and placed them on her back seat. A can of refrigerated biscuits had exploded, and landed on the back of the lady's head. Hence, the noise, the gooey mess on the back of her head. But she was convinced, it was much worse. This was the intent of my original posting.

-- Nana (drac@mediaone.net), September 21, 1999