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On 21 Nov 1998, Charlotte L. Blackmer wrote:
> In article <734nbg$bdn$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
>  <justice164@my-dejanews.com> wrote:
> >In article <Pine.GSO.4.03.9811200224190.9862-100000@sciences.sdsu.edu>,
> >  William Kronert <wkronert@sunstroke.sdsu.edu> wrote:
> >> > >     Yeppers, we actually have a few mascots in this group.  If I recall
> >> > > correctly the ba.singles newsgroup's mascot is a _cow_ but we have a
> >> > > Bambi and Squirty Frog for a mascot instead :-).  
> 
> Hellooooooo San Diego!  Looks like you've got some amusing mascots too!

     A sunny hello back.

     Yes, we do have some very interesting mascots.  We recently found
Squirty Frog and have taken him in under our wings in hopes of teaching
him the proper manners.  

> >>        Oh really, I always thought it was a cow.  Was the cow set out to
> >> pasture or was I completely wrong?
> 
> Actually you weren't.  Cows, penguins, and pumpkins are the mascots of
> ba.singles (since cold fusion reactions are SO tough to find).

     Sounds like the end result of are Bambi and Barbie reaction.

> Don't get me started about our late tree mascots Lance and Guen, two
> Italian cypresses cut off in the prime of their young life...it makes me
> sad.  Very sad.

     Hmmmm, does sound like a rather sad story.  Nothing worse then a
young tree whos branches go limb at a early age.  Have you tried 
grafting the two cypresses, perhaps grafting them will yield atleast one
healthy tree.

 Bill