







TIS YE WHOLE TRUTH YOUR ABOUT TO READ-



ON A SUNNY AFTERNOON,BOUT 2 P.M. YE
OLE BOOTLEGGER TWAS LOUNGING ON HIS
FAVORITE COUCH DEEPLY INVOLVED WITH
PHRIENDS ON AN CONFERANCE CALL.

      WHEN LO AND BEHOLD---

KA-A-A-A-A     BOOO-O-O-O-O-O-O-M-M-M

NOW FOR THOSE OF YOU WITH BEARDS, LET
ME TELL YA WHAT LIGHTNING DOES WHEN IT
STRIKES THE TELE LINE OUTSIDE YOUR
HUMBLE ABODE!

1.THE FIRST THING ABRUPTLY NOTICED TWAS
  THE 5 INCH ARC OF ELECTRICITY THAT
  JUMPED FROM YE OLE FAITHFUL TELEPHONE
  INTO THY BOOTLEGGERS (NOW GRAYING)
  BEARD AND PROCEEDED TO DISLODGE MY
  BOD INTO A MOST UNCOMFORTABLE AND MAY
  I ADD DISTORTED POSITION ON YONDER
  FLOOR!!!

2.BUT DO YOU THINK THY GRACIOUS LIGHT-
  NING BOLT TWAS DONE WITH YE OLE
  BOOTLEGGER YET? NAY-Y-Y
   IT THEN PROCEEDED TO BLOW OUT 6
  LIGHT BULBS AND FRY ALL THE ELECTIC
  OUTLETS.

3.AFTER CAUSING CONCIDERABLE CONCERN,IT
  SPOTTED YE TRIED & TRUE ACCESS PORT
  TO MY IIE THROUGH MY ANTIQUATED AND
  OVERWORKED MICROMODEM.THAT OLE
  LIGHTNING BOLT LITTERALLY JUMPED AT
  THE OPPERTUNITY TO CRASH MY SYSTEM,
  AND IN THE PROCESS FRIED EVERY CHIP,
  WIRE AND CARD IN THE PROCESS.

4.AND,AS IF TO MAKE SURE I NOTICED IT,
  ON THE WAY OUT TO WHERE-EVER LIGHTNING
  BOLTS GO AFTER VISITING ONES
  RESIDENCE,IT KINDLY BLEW OUT THE 2 
  MAIN POWER TRANSFORMERS AND A COUPLE
  RATHER LARGE FUSES AT MY LOCAL ESS
  OFFICE.


NOW WHO WAS IT THAT SAID CONFERANCES
WERE GETTING DANGEROUS---

               NUFF SAID-
               BOOTLEG



P.S. THE ABOVE TIS A TRUE STORY!
