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[Jenny Shipley <shipley@bigpond.com>]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Victor Guest <vic@daena.eepo.com.au>
To: Permaculture WA <perma@eepo.com.au>
Date: Wednesday, December 30, 1998 1:03 PM
Subject: Fw: Merry Christmas (fwd)


>
>   Sorry for my belated christmas wishes. My computer was out of order
>over christmas. Hope you enjoy this.
>A happy New year to all.
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>
>for your interest...jj
>
> A long time ago, in Communist Russia, there was a famous
> weather man named Rudolf.
>
> He's always had a 100% accuracy rate for his forecasts of the
> Russian weather conditions.  His people loved him and
> respected him for his faultless foresight. He was particularly
> good at predicting rain. One night, despite clear skies, he
> made the prediction on the 6:00pm news broadcast that a
> violent storm was approaching. It would flood the town in
> which he and his wife lived. He warned the people to take
> proper precautions and prepare for the worst.
>
>  After he arrived home later that evening, his wife met
> him at the door and started arguing with him that his weather
> prediction was the most ridiculous thing she had ever heard.
> This time, she said, he had made a terrible mistake. There
> wasn't a cloud anywhere within 10 miles of the village. As a
> matter of fact, that day had been the most beautiful day that
> the town had ever had and it was quite obvious to everyone
> that it simply wasn't going to rain.
>
>  He told her she was to be quiet and listen to him.  If he
> said it was going to rain, IT WAS GOING TO RAIN. He had all
> of  his Russian heritage behind him and he knew what he was
> talking about. She  argued that although he came from a proud
> heritage, IT STILL WASN'T GOING TO RAIN.
>
>  They argued back and forth for hours , so much that they
> went to bed mad at each other.
>
>  During the night, sure enough one of the worst rainstorms
> hit the village the likes of which they had never seen. That
> morning when Rudolf and his wife arose, they looked out the
> window and saw all the water that had fallen that night.
>
> "See," said Rudolf, "I told you it was going to rain."  His
> wife admitted: "Once again your prediction came true. But I
> want to  know, just how were you so accurate, Rudolf?"   To
>which he replied,  "You see,  Rudolf the Red knows rain dear!"
>