Message-ID: <10292979.1075858962412.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:08:45 -0700 (PDT) From: marie.heard@enron.com To: tana.jones@enron.com Subject: FW: This is hilarious!! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Heard, Marie X-To: Jones, Tana X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \TJONES (Non-Privileged)\Jones, Tana\Inbox X-Origin: Jones-T X-FileName: TJONES (Non-Privileged).pst This is cute. -----Original Message----- From: "Heard, Anne" @ENRON Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 12:24 PM To: Heard, Marie; GENIA HEARD (E-mail) Subject: FW: This is hilarious!! -----Original Message----- From: Julia Lemon [mailto:Julia_Lemon@Calgary.RyderScott.com] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 11:40 AM To: Annette Soane (E-mail); Charlotte Tory (E-mail); Dianne (E-mail); Judy (E-mail); Linda Manner (E-mail); Pat Daunais-Brown (E-mail); Anne Heard; Irma Marsh Subject: FW: This is hilarious!! This is wonderful. Hope you all get a great chuckle out of it. > Take all American women who are within five years of menopause - train us > for a few weeks, outfit us with automatic weapons, grenades, gas masks, > moisturizer with SPF15, Prozac, hormones, chocolate, and canned tuna - drop > us (parachuted, preferably) across the landscape of Afghanistan, and let us > do what comes naturally. > > Think about it. Our anger quotient alone, even when doing standard stuff > like grocery shopping and paying bills, is formidable enough to make > evenarmed men in turbans tremble. > > We've had our children, we would gladly suffer or die to protect them and > their future. We'd like to get away from our husbands, if they haven't left > already. And for those of us who are single, the prospect of finding a good > man with whom to share life is about as likely as being struck by lightning. > We have nothing to lose. > > We've survived the water diet, the protein diet, the carbohydrate diet, and > the grapefruit diet in gyms and saunas across America and never lost a > pound. We can easily survive months in the hostile terrain of Afghanistan > with no food at all! > > We've spent years tracking down our husbands or lovers in bars, hardware > stores, or sporting events...finding bin Laden in some cave will be no > problem. > > Uniting all the warring tribes of Afghanistan in a new government? Oh, > please ... we've planned the seating arrangements for in-laws and extended > families at Thanksgiving dinners for years ... we understand tribal warfar e. > > Between us, we've divorced enough husbands to know every trick there is for > how they hide, launder, or cover up bank accounts and money sources. We know > how to find that money and we know how to seize it ... with or without the > government's help! > > Let us go and fight. The Taliban hates women. Imagine their terror as we > crawl like ants with hot-flashes over their godforsaken terrain. > > I'm going to write my Congresswoman. You should, too! > > >