"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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I'm a rather dubious character myself and I have what my wife calls a
"slightly twisted" sense of humor.

I'd use a more ferverent adjective :~)

In the old days it was things like bouncing heads off the canopy doing
snaps in the S2 Pitts and taking people for pleasure flights carrying a
thick looseleaf notebook with me out to the airplane with the title
stenciled in bold white letters on the front "HOW TO FLY".
But my absolute best was our next door neighbors dog routine.
The people next door had this nutcase of a Rotweiler who had this
idiosyncrasy of being totally docile UNLESS someone made eye contact with
him. As soon as he locked eyeballs with someone he would go absolutely
nuts, charge the person, stop short and stand there barking like hell at
them. He was harmless enough but unfortunately I wasn't :-)

Anytime we had new people at the house, and I knew the dog was in the yard
next door, my wife would cringe as I deviously set the trap.
I'd tell the people that no matter what happened, no matter how strong the
temptation, when they left, no matter what, they should NOT make eye
contact with the dog next door.

I used to do something like that with visitors to our house with the gopher
snakes that would hang around once in a while. Ya' know, to most city
slickers, there's no distinction between a gopher snake and a rattler,
especially if you pick one up (using a glove, of course).

Hence, my wife's more fervent description on my sense of humor.

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Matt Barrow
Performance Homes, LLC.
Cheyenne, WY