I'm very sorry, I had no idea I had sent that.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susa Hazelwood" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: potato tale - NO MORE!


> This is NOT appropriate content for MOBirds-L.
>
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> As a group we haven't violated items A. through F. (thank you!) but this
> message comes VERY close to breaking rule G!!! The "chartered purpose"
> statement below is what we wrote to MU officials to justify the creation
of
> the MOBirds list serve.
>
> "Education and service are two of the three component parts of MU's
academic
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> MOBirds-L, the requested IATS listserve, has existed on a MU Health
Sciences
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> parts of Missouri and some neighboring states. The members of MOBirds-L
come
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> information, to ask and answer questions, and to gain increased knowledge
> about Missouri's wild birds. IATS' hosting of MOBirds-L will provide a
> service to those citizens interested in continuing to learn more about
wild
> birds and topics related to wild
> birds.
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Conservation
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> MOBirds-L meets the service and educational missions that are the focus of
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> I am now the list owner on record as responsible for keeping MOBirds-L's
> content within the guidelines set by MU. First Chris Snook, former list
> owner, and I have generally taken a liberal approach to the interpretation
> of the statement to MU IATS. The desire is to foster a more open list.
> However, some postings on the list are clearly off-topic. If off-topic
> postings continue I will be forced into moving the list to a fully
moderated
> one in which
> I have to OK EVERY message that gets posted - a lot of work and most
> messages would be severely delayed before being posted to the list. Or, I
> can simply prevent certain folks from being able to post to the list. I do
> NOT want to implement such restrictions. Please keep content to MOBirds-L
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> Susan Hazelwood
> Owner, MOBirds-L
> Columbia, MO
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John L. Cowan <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 2:21 PM
> Subject: potato tale
>
>
> Potato Tale
>
>
> You know that all potatoes have eyes. Well, Girl Potato and Boy
> Potato had eyes for each other, and finally they got married, and had a
> little sweet potato, whom they called 'Yam.'
> Of course, they wanted the best for Yam. When it was time, they
> told her about the facts of life. They warned her about going out
> and getting half-baked, so she wouldn't get accidentally mashed, and
> get a bad name for herself like 'Hot Potato,' and end up with a bunch
> of Tater Tots.
> Yam said not to worry, no Spud would get her into the sack and make a
rotten
> potato out of her! But on the other hand she wouldn't stay home and become
a
> Couch Potato, either. She would get plenty
> of exercise and eat well so as not to be skinny like her Shoestring
cousins.
> When she went off to Europe, Mr. and Mrs. Potato told Yam to  watch out
for
> the hard-boiled guys from Ireland. And the greasy guys from France called
> the French Fries. And when she went out west, to
> watch out for the Indians so she wouldn't get scalloped.
> Yam said she would stay on the straight and narrow, and wouldn't
associate
> with those high class Yukon Golds, or the ones from the  other side of the
> tracks who advertise their trade on all the
> trucks that say, 'Frito Lay.'
> Mr. and Mrs. Potato sent Yam to Idaho P.U. (that's Potato University) so
> that when she graduated she'd really be in the Chips.
> But in spite of all they did for her, one day Yam came home and  announced
> she was going to marry Tom Brokaw.
>
> Tom Brokaw! Mr. and Mrs. Potato were very upset. They told Yam she
couldn't
> possibly marry Tom Brokaw because he's just.........................
>
>
> Are you ready for this?...............................
>
>
> OK! Here it is!.................................
>
> A COMMON TATER
>
>
>
>
>
>
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