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Silverfoxesclub-digest
Wednesday, December 20 2000
Volume 01 : Number 082

In this issue:

-Re: Not a film review: "The Skulls" (2)
-Things this christmas that make you go hmmm...(2)
-Lonely foxhunter in Vienna (2)
-Mad Cow

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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:35:07 -0500
From: George of Boston

Subject: Re: Not a film review: "The Skulls"

At 01:05 AM 12/19/2000 -0800, Ben Boxer wrote: I saw the movie "The Skulls" last week. (Ben Boxer adds this note: One of the most fascinating facts I have run across lately in my research on the President-elect is that he has been out of the country only three times -- and NEVER to Europe.....

Dear Ben and the List:
Why didn't GW take such a journey?

One needs both curiosity and intelligence (they go together) to want to travel abroad.

When it comes to these qualities, Mr Bush received the short end of the stick.

George of Boston.
also known as "Boston Bill"
P.O. Box 261, Boston, MA 02122 USA

My web site has information on the CR Cruise in June 2001.
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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:36:24 -0800
From: "Ben Boxer"
Subject: Fw: Not a film review: "The Skulls"

Ben Boxer wrote:
...the President-elect has NEVER (traveled) to Europe..... =========== George of Boston wrote:
Why didn't GW take such a journey? One needs both curiosity and intelligence (they go together) to want to travel abroad.

Ben boxer responds:
Beantown Bill, I'm glad you said it and not me. That's EXACTLY what I thought when I ran across this peculiar fact. I have real trouble imagining a young man at Yale with loads of moola who loved to party and whooped it up dancing on bar tops and running with the ladies and NOT wanting to hang with his Skull and Bones buddies dancing on the bar of the Queen Elizabeth II or the United States or some other great ocean liner of the day in First Class, whooping it up with the party girls of Vassar or Radcliffe. They ALL did it!!!!! It really boggles my mind.

Well, Bill Clinton went to Oxford. That displays a very different mind set from Dubya's.

George, how could Dubya NOT have wanted to go to Europe? I guess there are a lot of people who don't want to go there, either, and that's OK, too. However, unlike G.W., they are not the grandson of a Connecticut senator and the son of a former director of the CIA, an ambassador to the United Nations and a president of the United States (Papa George), as well as being the son of a woman (Barbara Bush) so strong-willed her family dubbed her the "silver-haired howitzer"?

I honest to God don't get it. I really would like to understand what makes this man tick. He will preside over us, like it or not, for the next four years and maybe more, and I earnestly disbelieve that he is really no more than a laid-back rancher with cowshit on his boots and a pair of vapid eyes staring out from under the brim of a 10-gallon Stetson.

I heard a Texan caller on C-span's Washington Journal say this morning that she attended some kind of conference a year or two ago which G.W. addressed informally. She said he fielded every question with depth and understanding and impressed the whole assembly with his brilliance. She spoke of him as a "genius."

George, you and I are both old enough to know that nothing is EVER what it seems to be, and the reality of anything in politics is nearly impossible to perceive once the spin doctors get their hands on it.

Colin Powell is already rattling his saber at Saddam Hussein. Looks like the path to this administrations greatness may lead through another Gulf war. Hmmmm. Maybe that would resolve the issue of "don't ask, don't tell" if they can't get enough straight youngsters to place themselves in harm's way.
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From: SmallHandFF@AOL.com
To: silverfoxesclub@queernet.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 2:59 PM

Subject: things this christmas that make you go hmmm...(2)

Has anyone noticed the Special Olympics benefit on TV this evening (Tues. 12/19).Pop music stars singing Christmas toons to benefit the Olympic games for retarded kids.

How cheery................ has anyone noticed that the cover of the 4 volume series of recordings of these toons features a Keith Haring artwork

Does anyone recall that the International Olympic Committee forbade the term "Gay Olympics" being used, hence the name switch to "Gay Games."

Why is it OK for retarded kids to access the name but not gays & lesbians? Isn't it poor taste to use art by someone who was otherwise disdained by the IOC and to raise money no less????

smallhand
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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:26:39 -0800
From: "Ben Boxer"

Subject: Fw: things this christmas that make you go hmmm...

From: SmallHandFF@AOL.com

Has anyone noticed the Special Olympics....etc.
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Ben Boxer says:
I agree with the point you made in that post. The Olympics Committee, presuming to represent the highest degree of goodwill and fair play, becomes offensive when it exploits the work of a gay artist for fund-raising yet refuses to lend its name to gay athletes as it does to the physically handicapped. Obviously, it does NOT represent fair play, further evidenced by its admitted corruption and FOUL play in the recent Salt Lake City selection scandal. It banks on gay people avoiding an even worse public image by protesting their discrimination in favor of the physically challenged. This is an example of another classic institution (the other being the Boy Scouts of America) institutionalizing hatred and finding it acceptable to the world at large. In the words of a man who suffered the ultimate penalty at the hands of such publicans and sinners: Lord, they know not what they do!
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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:04:09 -0800
From: "Ben Boxer"

Subject: Lonely foxhunter in Vienna

I got this e-mail today from a lonesome foxhunter in Vienna. Any silverfox care enough to write him and say hello? It might cheer him up. Obviously, he's an animal lover, being a veterinarian. That's a plus. Not all of us are princesses, you know. Some of us are kind of doggie. We could use a loving hand to bind our wounds. If you respond, write to him, NOT to me. DO NOT click REPLY TO SENDER on this letter. Address your response to vet.wagner@magnet.at

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Horst Wagner
To: benboxer@mediaone.net
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 1:04 PM

Subject: silverfox

I (37) from vienna, europe, think that there is no silverfox left for me. if you know one please write me. Horst (veterinerian)
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 07:58:49 -0000
From: "Pewit" pewit@compuserve.com

Subject: Mad Cow

A quick trip along to this link will provide you with all of the delights, and much, much more, that you could possibly wish for. The Mountain Cow, as the site application is called is truly a Bovine Spongiform of an application - providing a level of entertainment that has to date, never been surpassed by the web. It features a desolate cow that, having been castigated by the in-crowd, sets about redressing its social life in the hope of world-wide fame and success - and perhaps little bit of how's your father with a few of the local heifers.

With this in mind, said cow attempts to find fame and fortune through the popular soap star route of pop stardom and it is here that you can really get stuck in. Faced with a choice of three genres of music - disco, metal and hip-hop - you have the opportunity to turn the cow into a dancing disco diva , a head-banging, tight jeaned (amply packeted) rock god, or a slim-shady would be Guru keeping its pockets fat by dipping down to the heady beats of the street - all of which is compulsive in the extreme.

Not only can you create a backing track for Mountain Cow, you create the video, dance moves, you can add sound effects and altogether create a wonderful multi-media extravaganza with which to impress your friends, relatives and lover - who may actually be deeply impressed by your new found DJ credentials.

Have a Merry Xmas and an equally Merry New Year!

Pewit

Editor of the Gray Gay Guide The online guide to places for mature men and admirers worldwide

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