Friends--at the risk of triggering an ICBM from the listowner, might I ask,

--Who Thinks Boris Isn't a Stalinist?

But perhaps we ought to privatize this thread. ?Ho ?Ho.

Yours,

Jim Barton
redwing1986 at mediaone.com
Cambridge, MA

Oh, yes. Perhaps I should add that redwing1986 may or may not lend itself
to a political analysis, but does, in any case, refer to the discovery of a
Redwing T. iliacus at the Fresh Pond Reservation in Cambridge MA, on October 24,
1986.

Don Baccus wrote:

> At 09:22 PM 12/17/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
> > Says the baby stork:
>
> > "Aww, just scaring the crap out of college kids!"
>
> 0.3 on a scale of 1-10. Only Home Ec students being porked by football
> players would've worried.
>
> > To which the man quietly replied: "Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear."
>
> 2 on a scale of 1-10. In the 50s, this joke rated about a 9, but its value
> has depreciated considerably. Especially since we've been raising an entire
> generation of kids the last decade or so who know Russia's no longer a
> Stalinistic state.
>
> - Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza at pacifier.com>
> Nature photos, on-line guides, and other goodies at
> http://donb.photo.net