Why, thankew, Erle for that recognition....
"In all of my excitement of watching the ticker, I forgot that it is Cinco de Mayo so, belatedly, I greet Nor'wester on his longstanding residency permit."
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...yeah, well they let my old man, a full-blooded Polack, and my Mother, an Irish-English mix slip in at Ellis Island to produce me years later....It's kinda humorous, though, you saying that in that when I met my first wife during my early Sophmore year of college, it was following a summer I'd worked as a life guard and swimming instructor (for little rug-rats), and I was damn near black with a suntan that would have made George Hamilton jealous.....The gal's father was sure I was a Mexican and kept a close watch on me those first few months I was dating his daughter....I showed him my papers and he left me alone....heh-heh...
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