Message-ID: <6249073.1075861992271.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 07:25:27 -0800 (PST) From: mark.whitt@enron.com To: mawhitt@aol.com Subject: FW: Fw: Paul Harvey RIDDLE: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Whitt, Mark X-To: 'mawhitt@aol.com' X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \MWHITT (Non-Privileged)\Whitt, Mark\Sent Items X-Origin: Whitt-M X-FileName: MWHITT (Non-Privileged).pst -----Original Message----- From: RDULIE3@aol.com [mailto:RDULIE3@aol.com] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 4:31 PM To: Comal327@aol.com; EDuliban@aol.com; JDULTAHOE@aol.com; Sdulie12@aol.com; drag-n-fly@att.net; Elikahh@aol.com; MariA2950@aol.com; Lesher1801@aol.com; jjjj@hawaii.rr.com; hawaiing@yahoo.com; pigpen7@hawaii.rr.com; mshintani@juno.com Subject: Fwd: Fw: Paul Harvey RIDDLE: --------- Inline attachment follows --------- From: To: Linda Hadley , Eddy Oumi , Ed King , Harvey Teves , Harold and Pat Davis , Joanne Lim , Wanda S Ono , Ted Williams , Francine Araki , Bob Duliban Date: Thursday, October 25, 2001 3:16:32 GMT Subject: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Williams, Debora" Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 4:50 AM Subject: Paul Harvey RIDDLE: > Here is a pretty neat little thing from Paul Harvey. See if you can guess > the riddle at the end. > > Paul Harvey Writes: > We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. > For my grandchildren, I'd like better. > I'd really like for them to know about hand me down clothes and homemade ice > cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches. I really would. > I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by > being cheated. > I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car. > And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen. > It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old > dog put to sleep. > I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in. > I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother/sister. And > it's all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room, but > when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope > you let him. > When you want to see a movie and your little brother/sister wants to tag > along, I hope you'll let him/her. > I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live > in a town where you can do it safely. > On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask your > driver to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone > as uncool as your Mom. > If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead > of buying one. > I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books. > When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract > in your head. > I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a > boy\girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory > soap tastes like. > May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and > stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole. > I don't care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don't like it. And if a > friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend. > > I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandma/Grandpa and go > fishing with your Uncle. > May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays. > I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your > neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Hanukah/Christmas > time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand. These things I wish for > you - tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's > the only way to appreciate life. > Written with a pen. Sealed with a kiss. I'm here for you. And if I die > before you do, I'll go to heaven and wait for you. > Send this to all of your friends. We secure our friends, not by accepting > favors, but by doing them. > > Paul Harvey RIDDLE: > When asked this riddle, 80% of kindergarten kids got the answer, compared to > 17% of Stanford University seniors. > What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The > rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die? > Send this to 10 people and then press shift and you will get the answer. > P.S. You won't believe this, but this really does give you the answer!!!! > >