Ken....Spoofs are related to Chia Pets. Sheeeesh! I thought EVERYBODY knew THAT..... <grin> Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Cc: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sunday, January 31, 1999 2:19 PM Subject: Re: Non-PD (spoof) Grow-your-own organs >SURE, Barb is going to give me trouble, JUST when things are turning against >me! >I thought it would be so easy to grow organs, so I buy all this expensive farm >machinery, no problem, it's only money, so I let the loan company worry. Next >I find out I when you plant them, they have to be really far apart. No >PROBLEM..... I just trade in the John Deere for a BIGGER one, it's only MONEY! >(Not MINE!) So then I buy a crane to pick the things up and drop them into the >larger holes spaced further apart. It;s a little more work, but no PROBLEM. >Then I find out to make anything grow you need to water, so I have trenches >made and put in an irrigation system. Just a few thousand dollars, not >counting the WINDMILL it takes to generate the power. Still, I can deal with >it, right? Okay so I plant them and water them, and wait and wait and wait, >NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING is growing. SO I call up all these organizations >that are SUPPOSED to help people to GROW things. They ask stupid questions. >REALLY STUPID! What did you PLANT? I tell them ORGANS, what ELSE? They ask >"ORGANS? don't you mean ORCHIDS? NO! ORGANS, you know, Wurlitzers, Lowerys, >Thomases,....etc. NOW they act like I am CRAZY or something, then BARB starts >giving me trouble! I think I am going to justforget the whole organ growing >thing! What is a SPOOF? Are they easy to grow?