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From: hlmw <>
Subject: Re: John Glenn
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 16:30:22 -0700

Cynthia Zieber wrote:
>
> >Well, one thing I know about Western Australia - or Perth, at any rate - is
> >that everybody turned their lights on to salute John Glenn. I think that
> >was marvellous!! What a fantastic idea.
>
> I would like to thank the people of Perth for their light/salute that they
> put on again, as they did years ago on John Glenn's first flight.
>
> >My father, who was a Methodist missionary in China for 30 years, upon my
> >asking when I was growing up, "Dad did you ever do any bad Hallowe'en
> >things when you were growing up?" His reply: Well, in Webster City,
> >Iowa, in the 1890's we considered loading neighbors' outhouses onto
> >outbound flatcars down at the switchyard to be the ultimate prank."
>
> In my father-in-law's youth (WWI) the thing to do in the rural US was to
> tip over outhouses (sometimes occupied ones) and to put wagons on top of
> barns. My father also talked about tipping outhouses so it must have been a
> common prank.
>
> Cynthia in Santa Rosa, California
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Yes, it was. My husband and some friends hoisted the out-house up on to
the roof of the high school!
Lorna May

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