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Default Have you had your marble today?

On Mon 15 May 2006 01:59:51p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Andy?

> Wayne Boatwright <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> wrote in
> 28.19:
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>> On Mon 15 May 2006 01:31:36p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Andy?
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>>> Wayne Boatwright wrote
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>>> He left them to my uncle, his own son, who still has them.
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>>> RATS!!!

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>> LOL! That's exactly what I said when i asked "who got the marbles?",
>> and learned the answer.

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> When was the last time you saw your Unc and asked about them or saw them?
> Are you in line to inherit them or make a request while at the same time
> wishing him a long life, naturally.


It's been several years, but he has three sons, and I'm sure that they will
go to one of them.

> I gifted an old friend of the family an agate (marbles) set of billiard
> (pool) balls. See-thru, except with the numbers in "wavy flag colored
> stripes" inside.


I bet those were sharp looking!

> My gift was a tease, because he'd come over and run the table and
> complain about not having enough room in his house for a pool table. I
> gave him an incentive to move! ))


So, did he?

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Wayne Boatwright
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