-----Original Message-----
From: Artis DuBose
Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 10:00 AM
To: Carol Phillip-Nouchet; Darnell Privott; Edwin Woodley 202-434-7572;
DeWayne Thompson; Fleming, Mitchell D; Jesse Turner; Joan Johnson;
[log in to unmask]; Vicki Hayes; Barbara Mumford; Ebrima Jobe; Karma Dixon;
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Stocks
Subject: FW: FYI




-----Original Message-----
From: Anita P. Fleming [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 3:10 PM
To: Artis DuBose; Charles Lattany; Clarence Adams; Eva Headley; Margaret
Fitzgerald; Risa Fitzgerald
Subject: FYI


A man is waiting for wife to give birth. The doctor comes in and informs
the dad that his son was born without torso, arms or legs. The son is
just a head!  But the dad loves his son and raises him as well as he
can, with love and compassion.

After 21 years, the son is old enough for his first drink. Dad takes him
to the bar and tearfully tells the son he is proud of him.  Dad orders
up the biggest, strongest drink for his boy.  With all the bar patrons
looking on curiously and the bartender shaking his head in
disbelief, the boy takes his first sip of alcohol. Swoooop! A torso pops
out!

The bar is dead silent; then bursts into a whoop of joy. The father,
shocked, begs his son to drink again. The patrons chant "Take another
drink"!  The bartender still shakes his head in dismay.  Swoooop!  Two
arms pops out. The bar goes wild.  The father, crying and wailing, begs
his son to drink again. The patrons chant "Take another drink"!  The
bartender ignores the whole affair.  By now the boy is getting tipsy,
and with his new hands he reaches down, grabs his drink and guzzles the
last of it.  Swoooop!  Two legs pop out.  The bar is in chaos.

The father falls to his knees and tearfully thanks God.

The boy stands up on his new legs and stumbles to the left.... then to
the right.... right through the front door, into the street, where a
truck runs over him and kills him instantly.

The bar falls silent.  The father moans in grief.

The bartender sighs and says, "That boy should have quit while he was a
head."

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