Does The Legendary Have A Sense Of Humor?

Answer: Not only yes, but hell, yes!

I ought to be ashamed to look at anyone's eyes I meet.

I've been all over the lot with this Possum Kingdom playin'
Possum thing and I still haven't said it.

Here goes:

In the dim recesses of the past, there was an ill-advised
program called the New Deal. People were starving; tycoons
were taking the plunge out of skyscrapers - head first;
there was no money, repeat, no money.

Along came a bright young man, the Governor of New York,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Once he got himself elected
President, he and his cabinet encouraged Senators and
Congressmen to locate likely locations in their states where
flood control and hydroelectric projects would benefit their
constituents.

That's how we got the Possum Kingdom Lake and the Morris
Sheppard Dam, named for the possums along the Brazos River
and the Senator who arranged for the dam to be located there
in the shadow of the Palo Pinto Mountains.

Things rocked along pretty well until a bright young man
from Waco got himself elected Senator. David Sibley, who
now heads up a lobbying firm in Austin, The Sibley Group,
was instrumental in the deregulation of electricity.

As quickly as that was accomplished, the suits who run the
Brazos River Authority made the decision to take the dam at
Possum Kingdom off line. That took 24 megawatts off the
power grid.

Wot dis mean, Cholly, is dat we now have electric rate
manipulation instead of electric rate regulation.

Manipulation - regulation

Regulation - manipulation

Still sounds right, as Brother Dave Gardner often said when
telling the story about the motorcycle and Mister Charles
and Miss Baby. Then there was the one about Julius Caesar
and how a funny thing happened to him on his way to the
Forum.

But that's another story.

Know any good ones? E-mail me at:

jim@downdirtyword.com

The Legendary