This is cute.
 -----Original Message-----
From: 	"Heard, Anne" <Anne_Heard@RyderScott.com>@ENRON  
Sent:	Thursday, October 25, 2001 12:24 PM
To:	Heard, Marie; GENIA HEARD (E-mail)
Subject:	FW: This is hilarious!!


 
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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! 
>  
> 
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