"J T" wrote in message
Mon, Dec 11, 2006, 9:04pm (Tom Watson) doth
lament:
Bindlestiff: snip of a sad tale

Jehovah's Witnesses. LOL I politely told them to get lost. It's
always fun, when you're in the right mood, with nothing better to do, to
bring out a chair, and sit and listen to them. NOT invite them in, not
bring out chairs for them, just sit and listen to them. For some reason
they never visit me anymore. LMAO

A personal anecdote about the sheer persistence of Jehovah's Witnesses that
gained my grudging respect:

In my varied careers, and at one point, it was my job to visit villages
along the coastline of Western Papua New Guinea and
try to convince the natives to leave our seismograph crew's offshore Shoran
navigation buoys alone.

Many of these natives had seen only a handful of white men and some were not
too friendly (it was shortly after Rockefeller's son disappeared, and I was
instructed to be on the lookout for signs of him).

I tried to search out the headman in each village (you could usually tell
him by the ballpoint pen in his sari or loincloth) and we generally ended up
in his hooch negotiating the terms of payment to leave our buoys alone.

In many cases, in this wild, uncharted at the time, coastline, very
difficult to access and visited by only the hardiest, most persistent and
arduous journey, I would find, by the presence of WatchTower tracts in the
headman's hooch, that the Jehovah Witnesses had just been there before me.

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