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Staff writer

MT. STERLING, Ky. —- “The big
bond is what floored me,” John T.
Smiley said.

Smiley is the man who put up the
“25,000 bail Monday that freed the
ll jailed for disrupting the speech of
CIA Director Adm. Stansfield Turner
last April.

Sitting in the dining room of his
ranch home in Montgomery County,
Smiley talked about the people whose
bail he paid, their case and about his
life and philosphy.

He said the $15,000 cash bond
Judge Paul Gudgel placed on each of
the Iranian defendants demonstrated
that the judge didn‘t want the
defendants free. “By placing a
“25,000 bond, they nailed the top on
the casket,“ he said. “There was no
way they could come up with that kind
of money.”

He said he thought it was necessary

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that they (the defendents) be bailed out
Monday. “If they had served out their
sentences, they wouldn‘t have been
able to make an appeal. I also
understood it was important for them
to get back to classes.

“$1,000 would have been more than
enough in such a case,” he said. “You
can get two or three murderers out for
$15,000.”

It‘s Smiley’s opinion the state
should drop the case against the
defendents. “The state has had it‘s
pound of flesh and should be tickled to
drop it and get out," he said. “To put
students in jail in this case was bad."

Smiley said he quickly decided what
he should do. “I thought about it
Saturday morning when I read it in the
paper and then I called the court to see
who their laywers were. I contacted
Pam Goldman (one of the attorneys)
later that evening.”

Smiley, 67, is a Kentucky native,
born in Clay County. “In I933 I left
Mt. Sterling with $3 in my pocket and

Competition often causes
students’ physical problems

By GIL LAWSON
Staff Writer

John, a pre-med student, looked
over his notes as 3 a.m.approached.
His organic chemistry test was the next
day and he needed a good grade to
keep his high grade point average. He
had a headache, his stomach was upset
and his palms were sweaty.

He had always received straight A’s
in high school. His parents and friends
expected him to always do well. But in
college, the A's just didn‘t come as
easy. He worried that he might not
make it to medical school.

J ohn‘s problem is an extreme case of
stress. And with the increasingly high
levels of academic competition, it is a
growing problem among college
students.

Dr. Louise Dutt, assistant director
of the Counseling and Testing Center,
said that because of the tight job
market, students have become more
concerned with their grades.

“Students are more serious about
getting a job now than they were in the
late sixties,” Dutt said. This concern
has helped increase the competition
and stress levels, especially among pre-
professional and graduate students,

‘ she said.

But even though the problem of
stress seems to be growing, students at
UK are not seeking help.

Dutt said that of the approximately
L750 UK students who use the
Counseling and Testing Center, about
half of them come for stress-related
problems.

“There are certainly more students
than that in need of help with
academic stress,“ she said.

Dutt added that more students
come to the center for help during
exams, which she said indicates grade
competition is definitely related to
stress.

Dr. Frank Bowers, chief of the
Mental Health Service, said grade
competition is so much a part of
students' lives, they don‘t realize a
problem exrsts.

He said a high rate of stress over a
long period of time can eventually lead
to physical disorders such as
headaches, sleeping trouble, shakiness
and and unusual amounts of sweating.

He said some students only become
aware of a stress problem when these
illnesses become evident.

The stress factor is a major reason
why the suicide rate is higher among
college students than among non-
students, he added.

ENTUCKY

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an independent student newspaper ‘

walked to Huntington, W.Va.,” he
said solemly.

Sitting in the straight-backed maple
dining chair, chewing on an unlit cigar,
he reminisced about his life in
Kentucky and West Virginia.

Smiley‘s first business in Mt.
Sterling was a small grocery store he
rented for $20 a month. “I had a small
store and a slaughter house in the
back. I‘d butcher a hog for 75 cents
and sell hamburger and pork chops for
eight and nine cents a pound," he said
with a chuckle.

“Then one day I realized I had sold
everything on credit and had nothing
on the shelves. So I threw all the
vouchers in the can, took 33 out of the
cash register and headed up the road.”

Smiley said he felt better when he
didn‘t have anything. “When you don't
have much you‘re able to look forward
to things, like money.

“I hung wallpaper in Huntington for
20 cents an hour before I bought my
first restaurant in Charleston.”

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Bowers said students are more
vulnerable to stress if they are
achievement-orientated. He said high
expectations from parents and
pressure to succeed make it harder for
such college students to compete
academically.

Students who have priorities other

Smiley, who has owned four
different restaurants over 27 years.
said he sold his last one in the 60's.

He has always tried to help people,
Smiley, who has two sons and four
daughters, said.

“One year, the principal of a school
in town called and told me he had six
kids who were poor and had no family.
It was around Christmas and i bought
them clothes and took the boys to a
barber," he said.

Smiley has always believed in
making his opinions known. In fact, he
once demolished his car to prove a
point. “I took my ‘72 Lincoln to the
courthouse on Lincoln‘s birthday and
demolished it with a wrecking ball.

“I felt the American people were
paying too much money to the Arabs
for oil and I thought everyone should
buy small cars. After I demolished my
Lincoln, I went out and bought a
Vega,"'he said and laughed.

Although he wrote to Washington
on his feelings about the energy

than high grades, Bowers said, are able
to cope with the competition without
as much stress.

Dr. Lowell Husband. a counselor at
the Student Health Servrce, said
students accustomed to getting A‘s in
high school have a greater chance of

 

etoday

 

local

REGIONAL DIRECTORS OF THE STATES occupational education
institutions will meet in a continuing effort to eliminate costly duplication of
facilities ‘and requirements. a state education official said yesterday in
Lexington.

Robert Spillman, director of liaison with institutions of higher education,
was one of about 70 educators and state officials meeting in a two-day
conference on vocational education here.

“What we're trying to do is get the institutions working together to develop
some joint programs," Spillman said.

state

THE KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION FOR RETARED CITIZENS is
scheduled to appear in federal court today to challenge what it calls
segregation of the developmentally disabled in institutions. specifically the
. state‘s Outwood center at Dawson Springs. »

The groups says placing such people in an isolated, rural institution
amounts to segregating them from normal society because of their
handicaps. .

The US. Justice Department also has entered the case, scheduled fortrial
before US. District Court Judge Charles Allen in Louisville.

nation

ANOTHER ARREST WAS MADE YESTERDAY in the government's
continuing investigation of alleged wrongdoing in the General Services
Administration.

A Baltimore painting contractor was charged by FBI agents of offering a
bribe to a GSA employee to escape a provision of his painting contract.

He was arrested without incident near the US. Customs Service building
in downtown Washington.

CLEVELAND IN RECENT MONTHS HAS SEEN its teachers strike,
its credit rating plummet, and its mayor survive a recall attempt, then be
hospitalized with an ulcer. Now it has a new problem — mice.

The rodents have been reported eating eraser off pencils on the l7th floor

of one downtown building, gnawing at leftover doughnut crumbs at another

and taking over restaurants when the lights go out at night.

John H. Gedeon Jr.. president of General Pest Control Co. and past
president of the Cleveland Pest Control Operators Association, declined to
estimate the city‘s mouse population. but said it staned to boom about four
years ago.

world

POPE JOHN PAUL II yesterday praised the cardinals of the Roman
Catholic Church for displaying “great courage” in electing the first non-
ltalian pope in four centuries. .

The Vatican. meanwhile. announced that John Paul‘s inaugural Mass wtll
be held outdoors at l0 a.m., 5 am. EDT Sunday on the broad marble steps of
St. Peter's Basilica.

A SPANISH GOVERNMENT REPORT from Madrid on the worst
disaster in aviation history said that the pilot of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
7‘7 jumbo jet took off without tower control authorization. .

The Dutch plane collided with a taxiing Pan American World Airways
747 jet in the Spanish Canary Islands March 27, I977. killing 58L

The transport ministry report said KLM‘s unauthorized takeoff was the
‘fundamental cause“ of the crash.

weather

WARM WEATHER AGAIN TODAY with clear to partly cloudy skies.
A slight chance of showers can be expected early tomorrow. Highs today In
the low to mid 60's.

 

 

oi

as had a varied life

problem, Smiley said nothing has been
solved. And he doesn't think much of
the gas-guzzler tax.

“By taxing people who have big
cars. you don’t solve the problem.
because those people have the money
to pay?

About those who witnessed or heard
about his actions, Smiley said, “I got a
lot of responses and a lot of bunk. I got
letters from Senators Humphrey and
Byrd who were friends of mine.”

He said people in Charleston
believed him when he said something.
“I could call up the Cadillac dealer and
he would send me a car without the
bill."

Smiley, who was involved in politics
in Charleston, often took out an
advertisement in the Charleston Daily
Mail called “John Smiley Says“.

“I wrote opinions against people
whom I thought weren't right for the
job and for those I liked.” According
to Smiley, when he issued an opinion

suffering stress-related problems.
“They can't change their
expectations; this sets them up for

stress when they can't make straight ‘

A’s," he said.

Husband said stress is usually
higher among students trying to get

University of Kentucky
Lexington. Kentucky

against an individual involved in .3
election, that individual usually didn't
win.

It was hard to leave Charleston, but'
Smiley said he left for two reasons.
“The water in Charleston was bad
because it wassopolluted. lalso hada
lot of relatives in Kentucky as well as
my parents, who decided to move
back.”

Smiley‘s 86-year-old father and 85-
year-old mother live in his home. “We
have an extra room for them and we
prepare all of their meals for them,"
Louise Smiley — Mrs. Smiley — said.

Smiley added, “I'll always do
everything for my parents.”

Smiley said he only completed the
8th grade in Casey County. “I didn‘t
have time to go any further.” But it
doesn't seem to matter. “I think
someone would be better off if they
tried to be a welder or a plumber,” he
said.

into professional or graduate schools.
“They know only some will make it, so
they have to get good grades,” he said.

Dutt said the Counseling and
Testing Center has several programs
such as the Study Skills Derby and
tapes on test anxiety to help students
with stress problems.

Passports of Iranians
may be inspected

By E. TIMOTHY KOONTZ
and PAUL MANN
Staff Writers

The US. Immigration and
Naturalization Service will investigate
the passports of the eight Iranians
convicted of disturbing CIA Director
Adm Stansfield Turner's speech at UK
last April, according to one of the
eight.

The man. identifying himself as
Remin. said in a news conference
yesterday in the Student Center that
an official from the immigration
service contacted the defendants'
attorneys. asking to have the Iranians

turn over their passports.

Roy Schremp, the immigration
officer in the service's Louisville office
who has been keeping track of the
case, could not be reached for
comment.

Remin also accused Gudgel of
approaching the case politically.
Remin said, “A rapist can walk out on
a $500 bail." He compared that with
the bail set for the defendants —
SUM each for the Iranians and
ss,ooo for the Americans. He said,
however, that the prosecution had
asked for bond to be set at only “M
if the defendants would plead guilty.

He condoned. “The judge has
shown his bias by calling us criminals
and dangerous elements that shouldn't

George Potratz’ job doesn‘t appear
to be in danger. See story on page 4.

be on the street mg 'by calling us

terrorists.”

George Potratz, assistant English
professor, said he was very grateful for
the kindness John T. Smiley showed
when he put up the $125.0“) bond
which released the nine demonstrators
Monday afternoon.

“However,” he said, “I am upset the
University upheld Turner's right of
speech and not ours.”

Potratz also stated that the
University has dropped all charges
held agaimt the demonstrators.“The
University is responsible for allowing
the prosecution to bring charges
against us," he said. “I'm glad to see
them backing down. but that does not
excuse them for what they have
already done."

He added that he doubts the past
few months‘ events will effect his
career at UK since his contract with
the University terminates next year.

The news conference -originally
scheduled to be held in the Student
Government offices rather than the
Gameroom — bated for about I!
minutes. In the midst of the speakers
and newsman were students writing,
studying and talking, paying little
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Exceptions should be made
in mandatory retirement rule

There's a story told about a guided tour company
in Europe that established a new policy several years
ago. The firm decided to get with the times and use a
mandatory retirement rule. and dismissed all the

employees who were older than 65.

The only problem was. some of the company‘s
best workers were the ones who were being
unloaded by the rule. It seems that bus tour guides.
like fine wines and classical literature. get better
with age. The company learned its lesson and
junked the rule, but not before rival firms had signed

up many of the tour guides.

Directing tourists and being a professor have little
in common. but the transition in respect to
mandatory retirement is still pertinent.

UK presently requires the retirement of
employees when they reach 65. Federal legislation
will raise that limit to 70 next year for all employees
except tenured faculty members and senior
administration personnel. The latter employees will
not be eligible for the age 70 limit until July. I982.

The problem is that good professors are being
forced out along with the ones who should be
retired. Raising the age to 70 will alleviate the
problem somewhat, but not entirely.

As former engineering professor Roy Smith was
quoted in an aritcle yesterday. “When an older
teacher with a creditable background retires and his

rule.

position is taken by an inexperienced one. I believe
that both students and University lose out.“ Smith
himself was forcedto retire last year because of the

The intent of a mandatory bill is reasonable,

because many employees should be retired when
they become too old to fulfill obligations that a
younger person would be more capable of doing.
But in being automatic for all employees, mistakes
'are unavoidable. The case of Swift comes to mind,
as does that of late basketball coach Adolph Rupp.

though his retirement was clouded by the Byzantine

candidates who are

exceptions must be

intrigue of a major college sports program.

What is needed is some provision for allowing
exceptions to mandatory retirement. A review
committee of administration, students and faculty
could be the proper body to decide on extensions for

nominated by a wide range of

campus groups. But first. legislation permitting

passed.

As the situation currently stands, the mandatory
retirement law is a cheap way of unloading people
without telling them they can‘t cut it any more, and
an effective way of terminating the tenure of

professors past their prime. But for those whose

made.

experience and abilities continue to be valuable —
even after ages 65 and 70 — exceptions should be

 

 

Letters to the Editor

 

Questions

We wpold like to thank the
Smileys for putting up the bond to
get our comrades out ofjail. Still
there are two questions: Why did
the prisoners protest? Why were
they dealt with so harshly?ln order
to answerthese questions wemust
deal with the relationship of the
governments of the U.S. and Iran.

Imperialism is the nature of

advanced monopoly capitalism. At
the deepest level that explains U.S.
relations with Iran. Shorter term
factors of oil and geo-politics play
arole as well.Theresultisaregime
in Iran whose first concern is not
the people it governs but one
concerned with pleasingAmerican
corporations. bureaucrats. and
security agents. Creating capitalist
and American style institutions is
the Shah‘s policy. one labelled by
this country‘s press as moderniza-
tion. For a variety of reasons
ranging from conservative to
radical. the Iranian people are
revolting against the dictatorship
of imperialism and the Shah.
Carter mouths platitudes ofhuman
rights but the necessity of the
situation leaves it unchanged. As
long as U.S. relations with Iran are
set by the experts of defense and
economy the present situation of
an oppressed people inturmoil will
continue. One dangertothis status
quo comes from an aroused
American people who have shown
their ability to take power away
from the capitalist stratigists. This
isthereasontheISA andtheOIMS
and their supporters are such a
threat to the imperialist. Policy
makers realize that an incenced
public hampers them. Conse-
quently all pssible means. from
distorted news to political arrests
are being taken to silence them.
This type of analysis does not
explain the harsh sentences given
to the eleven. just the repressive
atmosphere. Racism. political
ambition. and hard heartedncss
also come into play on the local
levelNeverthelessthis case makes
clear that human rights and civil
liberties are only a thin veil for
corporate rule both here and
abroad.

The Lexington In These Times

Associates

Judgement

Judgement is an act of discernment
based upon evidence and intellect.
Shall we now discredit our courts? To
think that the outdoor events of
Friday. October 6. I978 might

intimidate the court and its decision
regarding the Lexington II would
indeed be an illusion. We are protected
by law against denial of our freedom
based on “. . .race, creed or color. . ."
Would the courts deny justice based
upon either?

I have no particular Iranian
sympathies and know little of any C IA
involvement in Iran. I do know,
however. that a poster-bearing group
of five could not obstruct or prevent a
speaker‘s “freedom of speech“ when.
in fact. the speaker had yet to arrive.

It likewise stands to reason that six
others among several score could
hardly accomplish such a feat. Any
man assuming any political stand must
certainly expect some form of
resistance to his opinions. History
illustrates it repeatedly. If. then, six
voices and six posters are found to be
so intimidating. I would certainly
question any man‘s strength in his
beliefs. . .and perhaps their validity.

To be given a fair trial is to receive
judgement based on fact. not personal
preferences or values. not supposition
of what could or might have been. As
we see our courts succumb to
inferences and base its rulings upon
them. we as inhabitants of Lexington
are in greater danger than we realize.

As the defendants appeal to higher
courts. surely an objective judgement
will be reached.

Susan Ii. Lachmann
College of Education senior

Weapons

This letter is submitted as a
commentary on the many recent
articles concerning Irano-U.S.
relations. specifically the military
and political relationship between
the U.S. and the Shah.

The Iranian StudentAssociation
has inferred the U.S. to be the
bastion of the Shah‘s military
power. Of over 3.000 tanks
possessed and on order by Iran.
860 are of U.S.V origin. U.S.
Armored Personnel Carriers are
outnumbered two to one by APC's
of Soviet origin. This unfavorable
ratio will increase with delivery of
additional BMP combat vehicles'
on order from the U.S.S.R. In
addition almost all trucks. one-half
of all artillery. and three-fourths of
all air-defense systems are of
Soviet origin. This contradicts the
lSA‘s claim that the Shah is a
“puppet" of the U.S. Pamphlets
distributed by theISA statethatthe
Iranian Army is equipped with the
U.S.M-loriflc.lnaetualitytheyare

equipped withtthest German G—
3 rifle.

Politically since the Azerbaijan
crisis in I946 Iran has skillfully
manipulated her foreign policy to
balance the influence of the U.S.
and the U.S.S.R. Upon his
consolidation of power in I953
ShahMohammedRezaPahlavi has
followed the same policy. While
garnering support from the U.S. in
some areas. the Shah maintains
independence in the vast majority
of all foreign policy decisions.
While political repression does
exist inlran and is not condoned by
us; concomitantly the one sided
distortions espoused by the ISA
use a cloud of rhetoric which
obscures the truth.

Attempts to arouse public
sympathy for their cause fail to
note that anti-Shah forces in Iran
have killed several U.S. military
officers. These murders were
justifiedasnecessaryto protestthe
Shah‘s dependence on U.S. arms. a
fallacious assumption.

It is apparent that withdrawal of
U.S. supportwould notresultinthe
collapse ofthe Shah‘s government;
but would simply precipitate an
increase in Soviet activity in the
internal affairs of Iran. It also
seems rather excessive to credit
the CIA with exerting substantial
current influence inlran. giventhat
it (CIA) currently receives five
percent of the total intelligence
community budget.

We suggest the ISA refrain from
using inflammatory rhetoric and
establish a factual basis for their
statements. While we are
sympathetic to their cause we
cannot justify tactics which
attempt to elicit public support in
the U.S. while concomitantly
killing U.S. citizens in Iran.

Brooke Ramsey

MLS senior

Political Science and Mid-East
Studies

Go home

Persnally. I am sick of hearing
about the Shah of Iran from a few
hundred Iranians who do nothing but
condemn the their government and the
United States of America. too. Go
home. Iranians. and try to change
things in Iran. Don‘t criticize and
demoralize your country and mine
over here and then try to hide behind
the shelter of constitutional rights
when you break the law. 00 home.
Iranians. Go home.

DonaItl R. Smith
M S sophomore

 

Hey. look! There‘s a new pope in
the White House and John Cooke
returns to the Edit page. You don't
need to tell me; I know I was
missed. The stock market took a
dramatic plunge. there was a'
dramatic increase in household

john cooke

Scribe defends his
’horsey’ remarks

that demand the attention of the
public and a man like yourself in a
position such as you find yourself
in could really say something.“

I have an answer forthis and it is
not a very pleasant one for me or
my lawyers. I will provide you with

 

accidents. especially in the
bedroom (“Honestly. doctor.l have
no idea how it got there“). and
some dramatic girl sent a
dramatically favorable letter about
me to the Kernel without
requesting money or sexualfavors.
l was persuaded to get back into
the swing ofthings. I left my friends
ingesting their suburban
stupefacients and straddledthe old
T-writer once again to pound out
another epistle fromthe land ofthe
bland.

Let me get one thing clear here.
A significant number of people
thinkl do this becausel owe Chas
Main some money or PCP or
something equally gauche.

Look. forthelasttime.thisis only
a quaint little diversion. not unlike a
good toot of nose candy. Hey, with
my vast financial holdings.l could
be roasting my shoes in Southern
France. strainingtheinsects out of
the absinthe with my teeth and
catching quaint diseases from the
quaint locals. so don‘t thinkl need
the Kernel or any of its
manifestations. Listen. I am not
saying the staff drinks too much ~—
I don‘t have to.

Alot ofpeople ask me wherel get
the inspiration for these sordid
journalistic travesties and I
honestly can‘t tell them because
the supply is so limited and the
current price would break the
Federal Reserve System. if there
still exists such a creature.

And then. other people pose this
question: “Hey. Cooke. do you
have the two bills you owe me for
last week's ounce? If not. it‘s back
to southern France with yo‘ ass!"

My answer to these people is
forthcoming becausel anticipate a
piece of mail from Bogata very
soon -. so please let my mother go.
or at least loosenthe chains. She‘s
old. guys. and doesn‘t understand
the mores of the ‘705.

Other people say things likethis:
“Column's funny. Cooke. funny as
a blind man hammering a nail. but
what's the point? And why don't
you ever make any senseinthe first
ten paragraphs? Why don’t you
ever confront the real issues. man?

 

I mean. like. there are somethings

 

a short excerpt from my contract
with the Kernel — and yes. it is a
legally binding document. The law
doesn‘t take into account the
alcohol level of the blood at the
time ofthe signing. here‘sthat little
snippet:

‘ .the undersigned will
deliberately remain obtuse and

'oblique. avoiding current issues.

concentrating on the prurient
angles ofman. making occat'sional
implicitly obscene statements and
frequent inane references to
shoes. .

lthinkthatis enoughto convince
anyone. It certainly did a hell of a

job with the state court ofappeals,
so it seems that as long as I write
for the Kernel I‘ve got to follow
those guidelines. Oh. wait. I
already said that this is only a
hobby. didn‘t I? Well. believe
whatever you want. I always do.

I would like to focus your
attention at this time to a column
that appeared in last Friday‘s
Kernel. the 13th of October.
Wouldn‘t you know it — Friday the
13th.

First. a bit of background. On 2|
September.l wrote an articleabout
the Three Day Event and talked
about horses dressing queerly and
sexual sublimation and the inate
patronizing attitudes of people}
involved with horses and the fact
that horses are poor conversa-
tionalistsAalmostas bad asfish-—
and shoes and I am not going to
recount the entire thing right here
because if you didn‘t read it it‘s
your own damn fault butltrust you
get the point. It wasn‘t a bad article.
ifl do say so myself. There were at
least three ho-ho‘s in there. It
seems. however, that someone
took it to heart.

That someone was Caroline
Hughes. a junior majoring in Fine
Arts and the author ofthe article on
the I3th. She was sorely offended
by my remarks. I believe;
statements like these were dead
giveaways:

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doubt that Mr. Cooke could train
these animals as one must be
smarterthan the horsetotrain him.
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and sexist.“

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sexual hangup. which is certainly a
new twnst.

Further. she says.“Horses do not
dress like fools." I wasn't aware
that they even dressed. If you calla
saddle clothing. thenthey certainly
don‘t dress themselves. People
dress them. so. . .that must mean
the people are fools. right Ms.
Hughes? A little bit of allegory
never hurt anyone. Next time. keep
an eye out for that ole
anthropomorphic fallacy. ok. and it
wouldn‘t hurt to watch out for the
ad hominem fallacy. either. And
while I‘m here.l believe it's phallic.
not phallus. symbol.

Also. you failed to notice that my
article ended on a positive note.
saying the Event was indeed a
success and Well worth the
anguish.

In reference to my remark about
young girls. horses and sexual
sublimation. this “theory“ was not
my own creation. not something
that came to me in the early
morning hours after a bottle of Ole
Overcoat.

This “revelation“ was passed on
to me by several women I know
who ride or have ridden horses.
and I don‘t recall having said a
word about men. horses and
sexual sublimation. much less your
grandfather.

In all honesty. I would like to
thank Ms. Hughes for taking the
time to respond andl welcome any
comments atanytimefrom anyone
except Sara Bellum and you know
why. It‘s reassuring to know that
someone outthere besidesthelRS
is paying attention.

Wow. looks like it‘s time for
another cartoon! Unless they
revoke the law of gravity. ['1] be
talking to you again soon about
shoes filled with prurient angles.

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English, plays guitar for the rock
and roll band Eurmama. who'll be

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