THE ICEMAN wrote:
Yeah, well, I think not. My dear departed Grandfather, a Lutheran Missionary while in China (my father was born there), would have smacked me silly if I even considered converting (he had a great sense of humor, but not that great).
Cloudy, the bon vivant he is, has a dickey labeled for every day of the week. (This is NOT a joke.)
Very interesting... ICEMAN, unlikely as it could be, we have something very unusual in common. My grandfather was a Congregationalist missionary in China on the border with Tibet, at a town called Batang, back in the 1920s. My father was also born in China.
As far as dickeys go, I actually had one, when I was in high school, which my mother knitted for me. I have a feeling that she started out to knit a whole sweater, but decided to cut it short, when it started taking too long to finish it.
Okay, enough for the truth. It's time for a baseless lie about ICEMAN.
ICEMAN once had the world's largest collection of beer cans. He had literally thousands of them, including an autographed Billy Beer can, the complete Frothingslosh collection, a bunch of cans from defunct breweries, some really rare ones from the early 1900s, and many, many more. What made his collection even better is that none of the cans had ever been opened. They were all still full of beer. Then that fateful day came, when the rain started to fall. The 20 inches in 24 hours was a record, and the swollen streams washed out all the roads and bridges between ICEMAN's house and any place where he could buy beer. After a day without a brewski, ICEMAN decided to get into his collection. One beer led to another, and another, and before long he had chugged down his entire collection. A few days later, after wading through the thousands of empty beer cans that littered every room in his house, he decided to bag them all up, and take them down to the recycling center to cash them in for money. What had taken ICEMAN decades to collect, was gone in a week.
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p.s. ICEMAN, you weren't just joshing me about your grandfather being a missionary in China, were you...?