Hi there everyone, I was off doing some research, except didn't get a chance to stop by the Sikh Temple...had to get the kid back to school tomorrow ( wait a minute, that's already today! ). But I'll call one of my cousins and see if they can dig up info on kirpans for me.
Speaking of digging things up, my aunt and uncle had a gray cat they were telling me about. One day it kept walking across the keyboard as my aunt was trying to do the books for their business ( ornamental ironworks, mostly for security doors and windows )that they run out of a shop behind the house. She finally picked it up and tossed it out the back door. They live out in tne country. Half an hour later, she hadn't heard it scratch to get back in, so she went looking for it. She got to the front yard, looked around, and there was a gray, bloody lump in the middle of the road in front of their house. She called to her husband, and he came from the shop with a shovel and scraped it up off the road, and she went into the house to cry. My uncle got back to the shop and couldn't go any farther, so one of the shophands took it and buried it. Uncle goes back into the house, aunt is in the bedroom crying, and uncle is about ready to himself. So he decides to toss the cat's bed before it reminds the wife. Goes to toss it, and there is gray cat with it's yellow collar. Sleeping. Tells wife, carries cat out to shop, shows to guy who was kind enough to bury the remains, and guy blanches and says "But Senor Ron, I bury him THAT DEEP!!!!!"
((PS- this is not a Mexican joke...my uncle and the shop guy are born in the US of Portuguese stock, and grew up speaking that language.))
[This message has been edited by Rusty (edited 12 April 1999).]
