Fiction with fact and interesting... Thanks Patricia Whitehead!

Am I lucky or what?  I have received so many wonderful stories from friends and family and particularly this morning.  Thanks Jim Kegley, Frank Hunter, Carol and Clay Vice, Dr. Bill Daehler,and Pat Richards Whitehead, Nancy Morgan Mauk of Stout, OH et al... Sam Kegley aka SamKat

Subject: Fw: A new translation of a Bible story



In ancient Israel, it came to pass that a trader called Abraham of Com

did take unto himself a young wife by the name of Dot. And Dot of Com

was a comely woman, broad of shoulder and long of leg. Indeed, she had

been called 'Amazon Dot Com'.





And she said unto Abraham, her husband, 'Why dost thou travel far from

town to town with thy goods when thou can trade without ever leaving

thy tent?'





And Abraham did look at her as though she were several saddle bags

short of a camel load, but simply said,

'How, dear?'





And Dot replied, 'I will place drums in all the towns and drums in

between to send messages saying what you have for sale and they will

reply telling you which hath the best price. And the sale can be made

on the drums and delivery made by Uriah's Pony Stable (UPS).'





Abraham thought long and decided he would let Dot have her way with the

drums. And the drums rang out and were an immediate success. Abraham

sold all the goods he had at the top price, without ever moving from

his tent.





But this success did arouse envy. A man named Maccabia did secrete

(look it up, it means to hide) himself inside Abraham's drum and was

accused of insider trading. And the young man did take to Dot Com's

trading as doth the greedy horsefly take to camel dung. They were

called Nomadic Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Siderites, or NERDS for

short.





And lo, the land was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the

deafening sound of drums that no one noticed that the real riches were

going to the drum maker, one Brother William of Gates, who bought up

every drum company in the land. And indeed did insist on making drums

that would work only with Brother Gates' drumheads and drumsticks.





And Dot did say, 'Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken over

by others'. And as Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel, or as it

came to be known 'eBay' he said, 'We need a name that reflects what we

are.' And Dot replied, 'Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators.'





"YAHOO!' exclaimed Abraham.





And that is how it all began. Al Gore had absolutely nothing to do with

it.