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<td valign="top" style="font:inherit;"><div dir="ltr"><div class="im" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><i>On 2/6/2013 8:10 PM, Terry Farrell wrote:<br></i><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<i>Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!<br><br>Seriously - poured concrete roof?<br></i></blockquote><i><br></i></div><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><i>Yep, seriously. Cell reception in here, when it comes up, is iffy at best. With all the rebar in the concrete, we live in what amounts to a Faraday cage. Hmmm, maybe that's why the Mother Ship doesn't return my calls...</i></span><div class="im" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">
<i><br><br><br></i><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;"><i> I thought the wild west ended 'round 'bout the turn of the 20th<br>
Century. Silly me...... :-(<br></i></blockquote><i><br></i></div><i><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">It did, but there are more armed idiots now than in any other time in history. More of them are in bunkers now cooking up zombie repellant (like me, though mine looks suspiciously like hide glue), but there are still plenty of them on the loose.</span><br style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">
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<div style=""><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Actually, guys, the wild west was still alive in Nevada in 1982 when I did a wedding for the sheriff and the madam.</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br>
</span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">John Ashcraft</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Ron Nossaman <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:rnossaman@cox.net" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">rnossaman@cox.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!<br>
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Yep, seriously. Cell reception in here, when it comes up, is iffy at best. With all the rebar in the concrete, we live in what amounts to a Faraday cage. Hmmm, maybe that's why the Mother Ship doesn't return my calls...<div class="im">
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I thought the wild west ended 'round 'bout the turn of the 20th<br>
Century. Silly me...... :-(<br>
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It did, but there are more armed idiots now than in any other time in history. More of them are in bunkers now cooking up zombie repellant (like me, though mine looks suspiciously like hide glue), but there are still plenty of them on the loose.<br>
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