Australopithecus scobis wrote:
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toolmiser wrote:


Please repeat the straw story for those of us who don't have a good
memory.


OK, but only because you asked.

Pavel the udarnik wheels a wheelbarrow full of dirty sawdust out of the
Red Star Tractor Factory. Ivan the gate guard suspiciously jabs about
with his bayonet, but lets Pavel leave with the waste. This continues
every day for years. One day, Ivan says to Pavel, "Pavel Niklay'tch,
this is my last day at the glorious Red Star Tractor Factory. Tomorrow I
am retired. I promise I won't tell anyone, but I cannot take my ease in
the Park of Culture and Rest unless I know this. Please tell me, what
have you been stealing for all these years?" "Wheelbarrows."

Remember the Johnny Cash song about the guy who works at the Cadillac
plant? He systematically steals Cadillac parts when he can. Finally
after many years he has completed the assembly of a '59, '60, '61, '62,
.... Cadillac.

yeehaw and kudos to Johnny C.,
jo4hn

p.s. Folsom Prison Blues was always my favorite.