Larry Jaques wrote:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:33:27 -0500, the infamous Gerald Ross
scrawled the following:

Inserts I made to hold small items in a lathe chuck.

Whew! I thought for a minute there that someone had knocked your
teeth out, Mr. Washington.


Actually, I was named after George Washington.

--
Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA

It's a damned poor mind that can only
think of one way to spell a word.

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:27:57 -0500, the infamous Gerald Ross
scrawled the following:

Larry Jaques wrote:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:33:27 -0500, the infamous Gerald Ross
scrawled the following:

Inserts I made to hold small items in a lathe chuck.

Whew! I thought for a minute there that someone had knocked your
teeth out, Mr. Washington.


Actually, I was named after George Washington.

Ah, but do you have the wooden teeth to prove it?

George to Gerald, a wee stretch.
Washington to Ross, hmmm, ah dunno...

Or was it from later in life, when you started whackin' down cherry
trees for the wood?

--
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
-- Seneca

Gerald Ross wrote:
Larry Jaques wrote:
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:33:27 -0500, the infamous Gerald Ross
scrawled the following:

Inserts I made to hold small items in a lathe chuck.

Whew! I thought for a minute there that someone had knocked your
teeth out, Mr. Washington.


Actually, I was named after George Washington.

So was I. He was named in 1732 and I was named in 1957.

Anybody here named before him?

--
Kevin Miller
Juneau, Alaska
http://www.alaska.net/~atftb
In a recent poll, seven out of ten hard drives preferred Linux.